When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
EDWARD ALBEEDeath is release, if you’ve lived all right.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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 most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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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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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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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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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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