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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.

Edward Albee

That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Mindset Myself Remember Thinking Time Yourself
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
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
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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Carry Difference Illusion Truth 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
Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
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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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
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
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
EDWARD ALBEE

Criticism Himself Judge Moral

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