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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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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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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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