That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
EDWARD ALBEE
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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?
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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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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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