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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Edward Albee

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
EDWARD ALBEE

Philosophy Question
The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Comfortable Criticism Himself Play Responsibility Society
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing
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
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
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
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
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Change Criticism Responsibility Social 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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Carry Difference Illusion Truth Yourself

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