School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
EDWARD ALBEEMartha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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