The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
EDWARD ALBEEWhy we are here is an impenetrable question.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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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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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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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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