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?
EDWARD ALBEEAmerican critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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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 interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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