Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
EDWARD ALBEEVery 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?!
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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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In 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.
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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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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Your 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.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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