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Every monster was a man first.

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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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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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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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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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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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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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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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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