“I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?”

—  Edward Albee , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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American playwright 1928–2016

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