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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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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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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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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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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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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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 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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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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