Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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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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