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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
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame 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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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 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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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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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
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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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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