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Edward Albee Quotes
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Type: Dramatist Quotes Category: American Dramatist Quotes Date of Birth: March 12, 1928 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Edward Albee Related Authors: Tennessee Williams Zora Neale Hurston Wilson Mizner Clare Boothe Luce Lillian Hellman David Mamet Eugene O'Neill |
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. Edward Albee Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. Edward Albee I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. Edward Albee I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you. Edward Albee I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do. Edward Albee If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic. Edward Albee 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. Edward Albee 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. Edward Albee Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. Edward Albee Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. Edward Albee The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. Edward Albee The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. Edward Albee What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. Edward Albee You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are. Edward Albee Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. Edward Albee |
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