Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
EDWARD ALBEEIt is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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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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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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