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1. "What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have." ~ Edward Albee

2. "Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested." ~ Edward Albee

3. "If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?" ~ Edward Albee

4. "The world is a zoo" ~ Edward Albee

5. "Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Martha: Amen." ~ Edward Albee

6. "George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: "Yes, this will do". Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving… me, and must be punished for it. George and Martha… Sad, sad, sad." ~ Edward Albee

7. "Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union." ~ Edward Albee

8. "You want to dance with me, angel tits?" ~ Edward Albee

9. "Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself." ~ Edward Albee

10. "First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him." ~ Edward Albee

11. "You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?"What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?" ~ Edward Albee

12. "Lady, you can't fuck a metaphor." ~ Edward Albee

13. "Musical beds is the faculty sport around here." ~ Edward Albee

14. "And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall." ~ Edward Albee

15. "You don't see anything, do you? You see everything but the goddamn mind; you see all the little specs and crap, but you don't see what goes on, do you?" ~ Edward Albee

16. "I am a doctor. A.B.... M.A.... PH.D....ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.I'm really very mistrustful." ~ Edward Albee

17. "I dance like the wind." ~ Edward Albee

18. "Martha: Fix the kids a drink, George. What would you like to drink, kid– kid.Nick: Honey? what would you like?Honey: Ohhhh, I don't know, dear, a little brandy maybe. "Never mix, never worry!"George: Brandy? Just brandy? Simple, simple…[George turns to Nick.]George: What about you, em… em… em…Nick: Bourbon on the rocks, if you don't mind.George: Mind? I don't mind. I don't think I mind. Martha? Rubbing alcohol for you?Martha: Sure! "Never mix, never worry!" ~ Edward Albee

19. "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

20. "You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are." ~ Edward Albee

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

22. "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

23. "I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor." ~ Edward Albee

24. "Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality." ~ Edward Albee

25. "A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth." ~ Edward Albee

26. "American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties." ~ Edward Albee

27. "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

28. "I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you." ~ Edward Albee

29. "I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do." ~ Edward Albee

30. "Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger." ~ Edward Albee

31. "I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?" ~ Edward Albee

32. "If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic." ~ Edward Albee

33. "What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement." ~ Edward Albee

34. "What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it" ~ Edward Albee

35. "Creativity is magic, don't examine it too closely." ~ Edward Albee

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