“The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.”
— David Mamet
Author: David Mamet
Category: society
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“When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.”
— David Mamet
Author: David Mamet
Category: government
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“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”
— David Mamet
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Category: peace
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“In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.”
— David Mamet
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Category: family
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“My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.”
— David Mamet
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“It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.”
— David Mamet
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“Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”
— David Mamet
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Category: age
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“I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.”
— David Mamet
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“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”
— David Mamet
Author: David Mamet
Category: family
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“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”
— David Mamet
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Category: happiness
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“Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.”
— David Mamet
Author: David Mamet
Category: religion
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