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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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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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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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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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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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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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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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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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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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