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I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Edward Albee

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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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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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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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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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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
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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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