School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
EDWARD ALBEE
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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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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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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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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