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41 " Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. "
― Edward Albee , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
42 " You want to dance with me, angel tits? "
43 " 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. "
44 " 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? "
45 " Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. "
46 " I dance like the wind. "
47 " 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. "
48 " HONEY: (Apologetically, holding up her brandy bottle) I peel labels.GEORGE: We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs (An aside to NICK) them which is still sloshable--(Back to HONEY) and get down to bone...you know what you do then?HONEY: (Terribly interested) No!GEORGE: When you get down to bone, you haven't got all the way, yet. There's something inside the bone...the marrow...and that's what you gotta get at. (A strange smile at MARTHA) "
49 " ...the book like a sleigh left my lap... "
― Edward Albee , Lolita
50 " Honey: I know these people ... "
51 " La persona más mediocre puede ser objeto de un amor arrebatado, extravagante y bello como los lirios venenosos de las ciénagas "
― Edward Albee , The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
52 " I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret. "
― Edward Albee
53 " George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?Martha: I am, George. I am. "
54 " 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? "
55 " What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have. "
56 " Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. "
57 " 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. "
58 " Lady, you can’t fuck a metaphor. "
59 " 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. "
60 " 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? "