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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

Edward Albee

The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Humor Joke Social
You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Art Commerce Destroy Disturbance Escape People Serious Wasted Time
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Comfortable Criticism Himself Play Responsibility Society
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself

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