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Every monster was a man first.

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 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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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 have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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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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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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