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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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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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