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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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University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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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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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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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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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for 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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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