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.
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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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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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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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