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You want to dance with me, angel tits?

Edward Albee

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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
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University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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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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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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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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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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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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