What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEEPeople often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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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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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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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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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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