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

Edward Albee

A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
EDWARD ALBEE

Finding Myself Talk Writing
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
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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
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
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
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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Life Myself People Play Writing
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right 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

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

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