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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
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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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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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.
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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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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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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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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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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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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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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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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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