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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

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'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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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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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 act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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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're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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 find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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