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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
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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