I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
EDWARD ALBEEArt should never try to be popular.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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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 only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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