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.
EDWARD ALBEEI 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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