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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Playwright
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Screenwriter
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University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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 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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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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 writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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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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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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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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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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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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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