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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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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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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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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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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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