Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
EDWARD ALBEEIt is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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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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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Maybe 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.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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