What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEESometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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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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Maybe 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.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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 think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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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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