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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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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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Every monster was a man first.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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