Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEEProgress is a set of assumptions.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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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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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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