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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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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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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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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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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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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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I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
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