Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
EDWARD ALBEEAmerican critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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