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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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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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 suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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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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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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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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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'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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