Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
EDWARD ALBEEAudiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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