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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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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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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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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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