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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
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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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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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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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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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