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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

Edward Albee

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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
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
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
EDWARD ALBEE

Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
EDWARD ALBEE

Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
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
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
EDWARD ALBEE

Assumption One Liner Progress
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
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEE

Death Live Right Yourself
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
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
EDWARD ALBEE

Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
Art should never try to be popular.
EDWARD ALBEE

Art One Liner Popular

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