I write to find out what I’m talking about.
EDWARD ALBEEThe only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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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 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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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