Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEEI suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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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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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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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 find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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