Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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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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I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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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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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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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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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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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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