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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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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Playwright
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Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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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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