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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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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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I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
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