There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
EDWARD ALBEEI created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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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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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
EDWARD ALBEE