Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
EDWARD ALBEE
Writing 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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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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 am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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