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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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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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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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 swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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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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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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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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