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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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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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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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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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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
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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 write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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