Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

George: You take the trouble to construct a civilization, to build a society based on the principles of... of principle. You make government and art and realize that they are, must be, both the same. You bring things to the saddest of all points, to the point where there is something to lose. Then, all at once, through all the music, through all the sensible sounds of men building, attempting, comes the Dies Irae. And what is it? What does the trumpet sound? Up yours.

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Martha: I hope that was an empty bottle, George! You can't afford to waste good liquor, not on YOUR salary!

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George: Good. Better. Best. Bested.

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Edward Albee said he came up with the title when he saw the phrase written on a men's room wall in a New York tavern.
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