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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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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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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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 swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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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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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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