Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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