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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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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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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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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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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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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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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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