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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

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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Screenwriter
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University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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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.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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 said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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