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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.

Edward Albee

School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning 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
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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
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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Adoption Fascinate Mom Myself People Play
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
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Lying Myself Sick Tired Truth
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.

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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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