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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

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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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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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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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 one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
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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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You want to dance with me, angel tits?
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