There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
EDWARD ALBEEI suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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 created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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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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