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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.

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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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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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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 final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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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?
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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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 think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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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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