I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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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 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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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 have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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