The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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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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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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