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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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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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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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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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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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