American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEE
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
More Edward Albee Quotes
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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