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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
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Screenwriter
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
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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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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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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 one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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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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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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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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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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