What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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