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Edward Albee

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
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
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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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
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
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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 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
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre

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