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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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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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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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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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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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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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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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