There are only two things to write about: life and death.
EDWARD ALBEEDeath is release, if you’ve lived all right.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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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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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.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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 created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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