It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
EDWARD ALBEE
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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 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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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the 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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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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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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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