Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEEI think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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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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