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Edward Franklin Albee III (/ˈɔːlbiː/ AWL-bee; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and A Delicate Balance (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.

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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

Bed, Beds, Musical, Sport, Sports

When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things. . . either they. . . either they turn to a contemplation of the past. . . or they set about to. . . alter the future. And when you want to change something. . . YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

Abide, Change, Future, Past, Things, Two

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

Fantasy, People, Reality, Theater, Want

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

Degrees, Make, Make Sense, People, Things

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

Character, Define, Play, Push, Speech, Two

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

Attempt, Awful, Play, Shocked, Successful, Things

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

Generosity, Government, Spontaneous, Taking

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Death, Life And Death, Things, Two, Write, Writing

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

Cruelty, Effect, Independent, Kindness

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Done, Mother, People, Play, Years

I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

Become, Critics, Fashion, Writing, Years

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Art, Highly, Music, Produce, School

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. . . . I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

Act, Discovery, Thinking, Writing

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Doubt, Long, Probably, Thinking, Time

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

Climate, Responsibility, Talk, Thinking, Usa

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.

Fun, Happen, Let, Mind, Play, Understand

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

Comment, Play, Plays, Social

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

Come, Distance, Necessary, Order, Philosophical, Philosophy

Every monster was a man first.

Firsts, Man, Men, Monster, Monsters

Art should never try to be popular.

Art, Popular, Should, Trying

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