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The American Dream & The Zoo Story QUOTES

The American Dream & The Zoo Story QUOTES

1 " ... 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. "

― Edward Albee , The American Dream & The Zoo Story

2 " It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. "

― Edward Albee , The American Dream & The Zoo Story

3 " I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves; independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion. And what is gained is loss. "

― Edward Albee , The American Dream & The Zoo Story

4 " People can't have everything they want. You should know that; it's a rule; people can have some of the things they want, but they can't have everything. "

― Edward Albee , The American Dream & The Zoo Story

5 " But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might. "

― Edward Albee , The American Dream & The Zoo Story

6 " Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end. "

― Edward Albee , The American Dream & The Zoo Story