Art should never try to be popular.
EDWARD ALBEEThe arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Every monster was a man first.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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 write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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