Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
EDWARD ALBEEBeing different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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