Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
EDWARD ALBEEWhy we are here is an impenetrable question.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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