I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
EDWARD ALBEEProgress is a set of assumptions.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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I 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.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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