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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

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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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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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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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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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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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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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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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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