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

Edward Albee

That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
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
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
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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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
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
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
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
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
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
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
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

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