Progress is a set of assumptions.
EDWARD ALBEEWhat I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Every monster was a man first.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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