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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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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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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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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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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 suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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