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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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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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When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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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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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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