If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
EDWARD ALBEEThe only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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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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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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