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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
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
Things
Mysteriously
Begin
Careers
Funny
Ends

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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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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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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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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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 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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