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Edward Albee Quotes: As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
         

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.


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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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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.



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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.



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Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.



You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?



You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.



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.

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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