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Edward Albee Quotes

1928–2016 United States

Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright, known for works including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream.

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I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga — it will all equal itself out... You can't involve yourself with the vicissitudes of fashion or critical response.

Conversations with Edward Albee (1988)

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

The Zoo Story (1959)

The gods too are fond of a joke.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Albee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.