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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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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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.
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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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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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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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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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 suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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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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