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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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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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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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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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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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