I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
EDWARD ALBEEI have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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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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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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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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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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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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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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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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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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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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