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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
Art
Nowhere
Near
Dangerous

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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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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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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Art should never try to be popular.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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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 write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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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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