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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?

Edward Albee

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
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
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility 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 are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
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
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
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 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
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?

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