Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEEThe only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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