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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.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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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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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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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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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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