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You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.
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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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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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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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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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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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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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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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Every monster was a man first.
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