As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
EDWARD ALBEERemember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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