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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

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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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 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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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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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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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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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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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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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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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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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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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
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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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