If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
EDWARD ALBEEIn 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.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Every monster was a man first.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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