You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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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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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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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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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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