A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Every monster was a man first.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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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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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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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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