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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?

Edward Albee

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
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
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Adoption Fascinate Mom Myself People Play
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
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
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
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
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
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
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
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
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
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage

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