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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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 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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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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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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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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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.
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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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