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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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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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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