I write to find out what I’m talking about.
EDWARD ALBEEMusical beds is the faculty sport around here.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Every monster was a man first.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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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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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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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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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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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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