School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
EDWARD ALBEEMartha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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