A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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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