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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

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
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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 thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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 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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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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