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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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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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.
Edward Albee
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
Edward Albee
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
Edward Albee
You want to dance with me, angel tits?
Edward Albee
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
Edward Albee
Every monster was a man first.
Edward Albee
I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
Edward Albee
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
Edward Albee
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
Edward Albee
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
Edward Albee
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
Edward Albee
Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
Edward Albee
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
Edward Albee
The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
Edward Albee
That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
Edward Albee
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.
Edward Albee
