Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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Art should never try to be popular.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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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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