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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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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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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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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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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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 only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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