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.
EDWARD ALBEEBeing 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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 am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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