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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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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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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.
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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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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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Every monster was a man first.
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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