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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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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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 find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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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 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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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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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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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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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