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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

Edward Albee

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
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.
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Change Criticism Responsibility Social Yourself
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
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
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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
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
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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
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
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing

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