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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 people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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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 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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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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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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