Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEE
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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into 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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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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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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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 am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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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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