Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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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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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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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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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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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.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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