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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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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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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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When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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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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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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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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