The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. … - Edward Albee

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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Edward Albee

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. . . . They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

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If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

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The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

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