The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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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.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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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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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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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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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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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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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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