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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

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
Theatrical Director
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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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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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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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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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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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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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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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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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