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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?

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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Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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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 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.
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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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