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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

Edward Albee

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
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
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
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
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
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
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
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound 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
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing

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