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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.
Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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 write to find out what I'm talking about.
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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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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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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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