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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.

Edward Albee

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 suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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Change Criticism Responsibility Social Yourself
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
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
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
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
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

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