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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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