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Edward Albee QUOTES

Edward Albee QUOTES

1 " 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 , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

2 " I write to find out what I'm talking about. "

― Edward Albee

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

― Edward Albee

4 " George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: “Yes, this will do”. Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving… me, and must be punished for it. George and Martha… Sad, sad, sad. "

― Edward Albee , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

5 " Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger. "

― Edward Albee , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

6 " ... 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 American Dream & The Zoo Story

7 " 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

8 " To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love. "

― Edward Albee

9 " I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. "

― Edward Albee

10 " If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something having happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks. "

― Edward Albee

11 " If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something haven happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks. "

― Edward Albee

12 " Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part. "

― Edward Albee , The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

13 " I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up? "

― Edward Albee , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

14 " It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. "

― Edward Albee , The American Dream & The Zoo Story

15 " If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive? "

― Edward Albee , The Play About the Baby

16 " The world is a zoo "

― Edward Albee , The Zoo Story and Other Plays

17 " First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him. "

― Edward Albee , The Zoo Story and Other Plays

18 " Martha: ... I cry allllll the time; but deep inside, so no one can see me. I cry all the time. And Georgie cries all the time, too. We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take our tears, and we put 'em in the ice box, in the goddamn ice trays until they're all frozen and then... we put them... in our... drinks. "

― Edward Albee , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

19 " Everything becomes... too late, finally. You know it's going on... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield... finally... there's nothing there... save rust; bones; and the wind. "

― Edward Albee , A Delicate Balance

20 " George who is out somewhere there in the dark... George who is good to me, and whom I revile; who understands me, and whom I push off; who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat; who can hold me, at night, so that it's warm, and whom I will bite so there's blood; who keeps learning the games we play as quickly as I can change the rules; who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy, and yes I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: sad, sad, sad... whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: yes; this will do; who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving me and must be punished for it. George and Martha: sad, sad, sad... who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension... "

― Edward Albee , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?