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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.

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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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