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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
Edward Albee
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
Edward Albee
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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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.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Edward Albee
I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
Edward Albee
Art should never try to be popular.
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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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One must let the play happen to one one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
Edward Albee
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
Edward Albee
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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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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