Edward Albee

Born :12 March 1928

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Edward Albee born on 12th March 1928. As of today 7th May 2025 , we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 16 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Edward Albee

Timeless words and powerful thoughts from Edward Albee - discover the wisdom, inspiration, and voice behind the quotes that continue to resonate

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

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

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

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

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

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

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

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.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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