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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.

— Edward Albee Unleashing Intellectual Capital (2000)

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I've noticed that there is not necessarily a great relationship between what the majority of critics have to say and what is actually true.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

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.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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