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Edward Albee

"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."

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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."
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"You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are."
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"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."
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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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"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."
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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."
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"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
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"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."
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"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement."
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