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It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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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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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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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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School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
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