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
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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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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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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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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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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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