Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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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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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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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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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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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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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