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.
EDWARD ALBEEThe act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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