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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

Edward Albee

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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
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
Nowhere
Near
Dangerous
Art

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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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 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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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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 usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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 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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Every monster was a man first.
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