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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.

Edward Albee

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.
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Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
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
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
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
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
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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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Author Black Creativity Discussion Magic Process
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
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
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
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
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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Old People Snap Talk Way 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

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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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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