American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEEYour 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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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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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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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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 not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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