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“If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.”
-- Edward Albee

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“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
-- Edward Albee

#Mean Quotes #Taste Quotes #Educated Quotes
“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.”
-- Edward Albee

#Writing Quotes #Reality Quotes
“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”
-- Edward Albee

#Philosophy Quotes #Distance Quotes #Philosophical Quotes
“Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.”
-- Edward Albee

#Creative Quotes #Black Quotes #Magic Quotes
“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

#Fun Quotes #Play Quotes #Mind Quotes
“People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'”
-- Edward Albee

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #Long Quotes
“Art has an obligation to offend”
-- Edward Albee

#Art Quotes #Obligation Quotes
“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?!”
-- Edward Albee

#Mother Quotes #Years Quotes #Play Quotes
“The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.”
-- Edward Albee

#Reviews Quotes
“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.”
-- Edward Albee

#Writing Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Matter Quotes
“A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
-- Edward Albee

#Truth Quotes #Play Quotes #Fiction Quotes
“Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.”
-- Edward Albee

#Stage Quotes #Hanging Out Quotes #Guts Quotes
“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

#Character Quotes #People Quotes #Personality Quotes
“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
-- Edward Albee

#Alive Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Ends Quotes
“All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.”
-- Edward Albee

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes
“The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.”
-- Edward Albee

#Humor Quotes #Profound Quotes #Social Quotes
“The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.”
-- Edward Albee

#Fun Quotes #Block Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.”
-- Edward Albee

#Running Quotes #Cities Quotes #Beckett Quotes
“I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.”
-- Edward Albee

#Symbolism Quotes #Cymbals Quotes #Should Quotes
“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”
-- Edward Albee

#Writing Quotes #Talking Quotes
“If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?”
-- Edward Albee

#Alive Quotes #Wounds Quotes
“Any definition which limits us is deplorable.”
-- Edward Albee

#Definitions Quotes #Limits Quotes
“What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.”
-- Edward Albee

#Real Quotes #Kids Quotes #Differences Quotes
“By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing -- which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.”
-- Edward Albee

#Couple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes
“I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.”
-- Edward Albee

#Fall Quotes #College Quotes #Years Quotes
“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.”
-- Edward Albee

#Responsibility Quotes #Dark Quotes #Artist Quotes
“I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.”
-- Edward Albee

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Play Quotes
“I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.”
-- Edward Albee

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes
“School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians”
-- Edward Albee

#Music Quotes #Art Quotes #School Quotes

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