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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
Author
Playwright
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Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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 said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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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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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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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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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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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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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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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
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