I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
EDWARD ALBEESchool curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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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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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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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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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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