School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
EDWARD ALBEEWriting has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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