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

Edward Albee

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
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
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
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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Confusion Education People
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Art Commerce Destroy Disturbance Escape People Serious Wasted Time
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
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
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing

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