Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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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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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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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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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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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 have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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