I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
EDWARD ALBEEI suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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Art has an obligation to offend.
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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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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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