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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

Edward Albee

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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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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 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 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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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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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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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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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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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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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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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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