A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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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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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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