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.
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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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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 function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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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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