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

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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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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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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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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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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 act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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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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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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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 think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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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