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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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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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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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