I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
EDWARD ALBEEInfluence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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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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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Every monster was a man first.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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