Quotes of Edward Albee - somelinesforyou

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

- Edward Albee

“ Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen. ”

- Edward Albee

“ I write to find out what I'm talking about. ”

- Edward Albee

“ What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it ”

- 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

“ 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

“ Progress is a set of assumptions. ”

- 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

“ Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process — it is, after all, black magic, and may lose its power if we look that particular gift horse too closely in the mouth. ”

- Edward Albee

“ A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ”

- 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

“ When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things... either they... either they turn to a contemplation of the past... or they set about to... alter the future. And when you want to change something… ”

- Edward Albee

“ The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get. ”

- 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

“ A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ”

- 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

“ A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ”

- Edward Albee

“ I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ”

- Edward Albee

“ There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use. ”

- Edward Albee

“ The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ”

- Edward Albee

“ 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

“ The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ”

- Edward Albee

“ A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ”

- Edward Albee

“ Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. ”

- Edward Albee

“ You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are. ”

- Edward Albee

“ The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. ”

- Edward Albee

“ Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process — it is, after all, black magic, and may lose its power if we look that particular gift horse too closely in the mouth. ”

- Edward Albee

“ Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere. ”

- Edward Albee

“ I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you. ”

- Edward Albee

“ Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. ”

- Edward Albee
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