Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Good, better, best, bested 32

All right...what do you want me to say? Do you want me to say it's funny, so you can contradict me and say it's sad? of do you want me to say it's sad so you can turn around and say no, it's funny. You can play that damn little game any way you want to, you know! / Very good! Very good! 33

Martha and I are having...nothing...exercising...that's all 33

It's just that I don't like to...become involved 34

But you are going to have kids...anyway. In spite of history. 40

will lose its glorious variety and unpredictability. I and with me the...the surprise, the multiplexity, the sea-changing rhythm of...history, will be eliminated. There will be order and constancy 67

I've been drawing you out on this stuff...because you represent a direct and pertinent threat to my lifehood 111

You ineffectual sons of bitches...you're the worst 111

you make government and art, and realize that they are, must be, both the same...you bring things to the saddest of all points 117

You given up? / No...no. It's just I've got to figure out some new way to fight you, Martha. Guerilla tactics, maybe...internal subversion...I don't know. Something. 125

They're dancing like they've danced before. / It's a familiar dance...they both know it 131

THE GAME IS OVER! 136

This isn't a novel at all...this is the truth...this really happened...TO ME! 137

Well! That's one game. What shall we do now, hunh? 138

We gotta play a game. 139

We'll play a round of Get the Guests 140

By God, you gotta have a swing to show you where the truffles are. 149

I'll play the charades like you're got 'em set up...I'll play in your language...I'll be what you say I am. / You are already...you just don't know it. / No...no. Not really. But I'll be it, mister...I'll show you something come to life you'll wish you hadn't set up. 151

you've moved bag and baggage into your own fantasy world now, and you've started playing variations of your own distortions 155

It's snapped, finally. Not me...it. The whole arrangement. 156

You can't come together with nothing, and you're nothing. 158

who keeps learning the game we play as quickly as I can change the rules; who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy, and yes I do wish to be happy. 191

There's no limit to you, is there? / No, baby; none. 194

No more games...please. It's game I don't want. No more games. 207

There's a real mother talking 222

YOU CANNOT DO THAT! YOU CAN'T DECIDE THAT FOR YOURSELF! 232

I think I understand this. 236

We never spoke of it; that's all. I could kill him any time I wanted to...You broke our rule, baby. You mentioned him...you mentioned him to someone else. 236

It will be better...It will be...maybe 240

Are you all right? / Yes. No. 241