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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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Playwright
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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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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I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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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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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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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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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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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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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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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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