What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEESincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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