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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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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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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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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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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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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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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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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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