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Quote by Janos Kadar

“Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.”

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Janos Kadar was a significant Hungarian political leader who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1956 to 1958 and as President of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1958 to 1989. Born on May 26, 1912, in Budapest, he passed away on July 6, 1989. more

“In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number of plays by playwrights who were thought very highly of then - they were very bad playwrights - were highly praised because their themes were intellectually and politically proper. This intellectual morass is very dangerous, it seems to me. A form of censorship.”

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Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.”

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Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.”

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Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee