I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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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 think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Every monster was a man first.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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