The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
EDWARD ALBEEThat’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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