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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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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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 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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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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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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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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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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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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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