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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate 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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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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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 find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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