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

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Playwright
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Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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Swine
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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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?
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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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