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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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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
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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.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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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 imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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