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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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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 swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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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 think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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Every monster was a man first.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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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 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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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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