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Progress is a set of assumptions.

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
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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 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'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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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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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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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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 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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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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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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