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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.’

Edward Albee

Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
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
A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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Confusion Education People
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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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
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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Concept Evolution Play Question
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning Myself
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk 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 created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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
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
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
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
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

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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