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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.
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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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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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