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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
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Playwright
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Screenwriter
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University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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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 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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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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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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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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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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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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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One must let the play happen to one one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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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