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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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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
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
Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Interest Live Myself Production Run
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
EDWARD ALBEE

Life Myself People Play Writing
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
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic

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