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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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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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.
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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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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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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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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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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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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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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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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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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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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