Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
EDWARD ALBEE
In 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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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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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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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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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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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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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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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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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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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