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 ALBEEI 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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 created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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