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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
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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 think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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