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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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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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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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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 may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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