Art has an obligation to offend.
EDWARD ALBEEOne 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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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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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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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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