Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
EDWARD ALBEEInfluence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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 interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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