School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
EDWARD ALBEEMaybe 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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