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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
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
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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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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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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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Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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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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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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