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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 have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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Art should never try to be popular.
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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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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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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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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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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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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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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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