Quote by David Mamet
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact

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

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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Recognition
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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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Computers
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If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals. – David Mamet

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Government
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I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders

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Society

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. – Christopher Dawson

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Society

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. – Charles de Secondat

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Society

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. – David Korten

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Society

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Im always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I dont get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself. – Willie Stargell

Category:
Home

I think Im basically the same guy I always was. Maybe Ive learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. – Willie Nelson

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. – Joaquin de Setanti

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Wise Words

To labor is to pray. – Motto of the Benedictines

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Labor