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30 of Edward Albee's Greatest Lines – Flavorwire Mar 12th 2013, 14:15 Today, we celebrate the 85th birthday of one of America's greatest playwrights, Edward Albee, the mastermind behind Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Goat: or, Who Is Sylvia? — plus, oh, 30-odd more. To honor the great (and often somewhat crotchety) writer on his birthday, we've put together a list of some of his greatest lines, from his interviews, nonfiction, and plays. After the jump, indulge in a little Albee talk, and let us know if we missed your favorite quip in the comments. "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." — In the Saturday Review, May 4, 1966 "You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are." — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "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 Source: http://flavorwire.com/376889/30-of-edward-albees-greatest-lines

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