I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
EDWARD ALBEEThe responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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