Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEEMusical beds is the faculty sport around here.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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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 don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Every monster was a man first.
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