The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
EDWARD ALBEEWriting has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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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 think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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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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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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