I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
EDWARD ALBEEIt 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Art should never try to be popular.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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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