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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

Edward Albee

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
EDWARD ALBEE

Actor Population
Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Concept Evolution Play Question
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
EDWARD ALBEE

Bed Music Sports
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Criticism Himself Judge Moral
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
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
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
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
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
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
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 created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing 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

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