“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 Zoo Story

The Zoo Story (1959)

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American playwright 1928–2016

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