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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

The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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Afraid Fake Illusion Life Live
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre

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