Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
EDWARD ALBEEYou’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
More Edward Albee Quotes
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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