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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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 find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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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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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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Every monster was a man first.
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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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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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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 write to find out what I'm talking about.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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 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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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 the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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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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