Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
EDWARD ALBEEMaybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Audiences 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.
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The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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 have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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 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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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