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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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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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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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Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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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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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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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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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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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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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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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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