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The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Apply Approach Aside Avant-Garde Bold Childlike Fun Funny Iconoclastic Innocence Liberating Often Own Putting Responses Standard Surprise Terms Theater Think Wildly Will You Your I Think

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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

Topics: Accomplish Bad Bad Ones Define Fact Good Good Writer Merely More Often Opposite Reality Than Truth Turns Will Writer Writers

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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Fantasy Involvement People Reality Really Theater Want

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

~Edward Albee

Topics: Fine Humor No Sense Ridiculous Sense Sense Of Humor

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He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Afraid Been Bitten He Rope Snake

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That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Being Better Care Cause Civilization Counts Dignity Doomed Either Even Feel Gives Got Important Makes Matter People Sense Sorry You

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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Distilled Fact Fiction Play Truth

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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.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Gather Happen Immediately Impressions Know Loose Mind Must Play Rather Receive Respond Sense Than Understand Will

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

~Edward Albee

Topics: Alive Critic Drama He Today Were

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Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.

~Edward Albee

Topics: Asleep Been Cry Even Find Great Hollow Longest Longest Time Make Middle Night Old Old People Out People Screaming Sounds Table Time Try Up Wake Wake Up

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: March 12th, 1928

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