One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
EDWARD ALBEEA play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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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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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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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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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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