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Edward Albee

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
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
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
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
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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Action Character Live Lower Moments 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
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
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
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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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself

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