Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
EDWARD ALBEEI have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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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?!
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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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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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