Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
EDWARD ALBEEWhat I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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.
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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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