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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.
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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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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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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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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 government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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