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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
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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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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
Edward Albee
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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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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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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 imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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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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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
Edward Albee
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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