American - Dramatist | March 12, 1928 - September 16, 2016
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Edward Albee
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I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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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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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
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It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
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Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
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My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.
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I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
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