Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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 suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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