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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.

Edward Albee

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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Carry Difference Illusion Truth Yourself
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning Myself
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Correct Distance Necessary Order Time Way
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population

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