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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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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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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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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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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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My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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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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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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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
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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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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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One must let the play happen to one one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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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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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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