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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? Abraham Lincoln		Wednesday Apr 22, 2026
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. Edward Franklin Albee III

Quote Author: Edward Franklin Albee III

	Edward Franklin Albee III
	(1928-) US dramatist, wrote plays: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Sandbox, Pulitzer 1994.

Other Edward Franklin Albee III Quotes

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

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

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say it leaves me something to do.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.