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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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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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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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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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