Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
EDWARD ALBEEEvery monster was a man first.
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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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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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