A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
EDWARD ALBEE
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More Edward Albee Quotes
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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