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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Edward Albee

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
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
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
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
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
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
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
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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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
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
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
Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Action Definition Oneself Play

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