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.
EDWARD ALBEEIt is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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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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Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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