American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Every monster was a man first.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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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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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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