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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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University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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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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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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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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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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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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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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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