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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 find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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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.
Edward Albee
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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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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I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
Edward Albee
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
Edward Albee
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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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Edward Albee
