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July 6, 2012

Cocktail Talk: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

So, there’s love. And that’s a good thing. But even when in love, there sometimes has to be a line of what you just won’t do, even for someone who you love (and I’m talking the love gamut here, from friend to significant other and all). And I think that old drinker-now-gone Richard Burton says it best (in a very specifically Spiked Punch kind of way) in the below quote, from the 1966 movie version of the Albee play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf:

Now, I will hold your hand when it’s dark and you’re afraid of the boogeyman and I will tote your gin bottles out after midnight so no one can see but I will not light your cigarette. And that, as they say, is that.

–Richard Burton (as George), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf

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January 22, 2009

Cocktail Talk: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I actually know this quote from the Burton-Taylor movie and not the book (though perhaps it’s in there too? Who’s literary enough to answer that question? Or sober enough, for that matter?), but since I have a couple pals quitting, or attempting to quit, or playing at quitting, smoking right now, it certainly seemed appropriate. And maybe will spur them to finally give up the stinky sticks. And even beyond that, it’s such a darn fine quote:

Now, I will hold your hand when it’s dark and you’re afraid of the boogeyman and I will tote your gin bottles out after midnight so no one can see but I will not light your cigarette. And that, as they say, is that.

–George (Richard Burton), in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Cocktail Talk: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

Cocktail Talk: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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