The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
EDWARD ALBEEThere are only two things to write about: life and death.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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 don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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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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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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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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