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Art should never try to be popular.

Edward Albee

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
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
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
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source 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
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Adoption Fascinate Mom Myself People Play
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 suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing

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