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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

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
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
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
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Lying Myself Sick Tired Truth
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
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
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
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
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
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Mindset Myself Remember Thinking Time 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
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
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Interest Live Myself Production Run
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
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself

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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