There are only two things to write about: life and death.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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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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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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