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

Edward Albee

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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
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
Swine
Gotta
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Truffles

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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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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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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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