A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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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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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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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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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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