Progress is a set of assumptions.
EDWARD ALBEE
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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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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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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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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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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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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