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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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Playwright
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Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
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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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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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 should never try to be popular.
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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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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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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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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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 am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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