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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to 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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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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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 think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Every monster was a man first.
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