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There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Edward Albee

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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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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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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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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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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 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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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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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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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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