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Art should never try to be popular.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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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 think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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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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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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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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