Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
EDWARD ALBEEIf you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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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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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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