I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
EDWARD ALBEEThe 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Every monster was a man first.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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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