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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Playwright
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Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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 said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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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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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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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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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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