I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
EDWARD ALBEEIt is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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