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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

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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Theatrical Director
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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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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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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One must let the play happen to one one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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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 write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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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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