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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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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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