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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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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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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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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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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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.
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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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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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