I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
EDWARD ALBEESincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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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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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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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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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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