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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

— Edward Albee The Zoo Story (1959)

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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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