A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEEIn a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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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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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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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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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 don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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