I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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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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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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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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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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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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