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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.
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 said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
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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.
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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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 suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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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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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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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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Every monster was a man first.
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