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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.
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 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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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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