If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
EDWARD ALBEEGood writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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The 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.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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