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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

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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'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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.
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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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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 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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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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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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