Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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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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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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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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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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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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