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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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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
Edward Albee
Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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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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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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