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> [Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/read-the-great-stuff-but-read-the-stuff-that-isn-t-so-great-too-great/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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> [My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/my-exposure-to-beckett-and-to-late-o-neill-was-probably-important/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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> [I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-am-not-interested-in-living-in-a-city-where-there-isn-t-a/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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> [The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/the-one-living-playwright-i-admire-without-any-reservation-whatsoever/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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## Other authors on Beckett

## More by Edward Albee

> [School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/school-curricula-that-ignore-the-arts-produce-highly-educated/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/when-a-critic-sets-himself-up-as-an-arbiter-of-morality-a-judge-of/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/when-people-don-t-like-the-way-a-play-ends-they-re-likely-to-blame/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/in-a-democracy-you-cannot-stop-public-access-to-that-art-that-will/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/creativity-is-magic-don-t-examine-it-too-closely/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/when-people-can-t-abide-things-as-they-are-when-they-can-t-abide-the/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [“Lady, you can’t fuck a metaphor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/lady-you-can-t-fuck-a-metaphor/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [I write to find out what I'm talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-write-to-find-out-what-i-m-talking-about/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-know-playwrights-who-like-to-kid-themselves-into-saying-that-their/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/the-greatest-problem-with-irish-wolfhounds-though-is-that-they-don-t/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/dashed-hopes-and-good-intentions-good-better-best-bested/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/writing-has-got-to-be-an-act-of-discovery-i-write-to-find-out-what-i/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-m-back-in-fashion-again-for-a-while-now-but-i-imagine-that-three-or/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/what-people-really-want-in-the-theater-is-fantasy-involvement-and-not/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

> [Art should never try to be popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/art-should-never-try-to-be-popular/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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