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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.

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 think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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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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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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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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.
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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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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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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 relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.
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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Every monster was a man first.
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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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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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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
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