Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
EDWARD ALBEESchool curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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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 am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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