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You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
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I write to find out what I'm talking about.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
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The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
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