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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.

Edward Albee

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
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
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
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
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
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
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress

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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