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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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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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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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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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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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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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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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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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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