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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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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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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 suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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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 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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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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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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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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 think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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