The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
EDWARD ALBEEThe most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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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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