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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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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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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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