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Edward Albee

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dramatist

Biography: Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is known for works such as The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and a rewrite of the book for the unsuccessful musical Breakfast at Tiffany's an adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition.

Edward Albee

“American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.”

- Edward Albee

Source/Notes: Address to New York Cultural League (6 May 1969)

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Edward Albee

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”

- Edward Albee

Source/Notes: Saturday Review (4 May 1966)

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Edward Albee

“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”

- Edward Albee

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Edward Albee

“I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.”

- Edward Albee

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Edward Albee

“If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.”

- Edward Albee

Source/Notes: As quoted in Theater Week (1988); also in The Book of Poisonous Quotes (1993) edited by Colin Jarman, p. 100

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Edward Albee

“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.”

- Edward Albee

Source/Notes: As quoted in Unleashing Intellectual Capital (2000) by Charles Ehin, p. 99

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Edward Albee

“Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.”

- Edward Albee

Source/Notes: The Zoo Story (1959).

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Edward Albee

“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”

- Edward Albee

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Edward Albee

“The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.”

- Edward Albee

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Edward Albee

“The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.”

- Edward Albee

Source/Notes: Conversations with Edward Albee (1988 edition), Univ. Press of Mississippi - ISBN: 9780878053421

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