If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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