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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
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
EDWARD ALBEE

Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
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
Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Action Definition Oneself Play
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play Writing
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
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
EDWARD ALBEE

Change Criticism Responsibility Social Yourself
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
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?!
EDWARD ALBEE

Adoption Fascinate Mom Myself People Play
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth

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