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

Edward Albee

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning 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
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
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing
Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
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
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
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
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
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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