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I write to find out what I’m talking about.

Edward Albee

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
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
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
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Criticism Himself Judge Moral
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Author Black Creativity Discussion Magic Process
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself

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