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

Other quotes by David Mamet

Theres nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It wont ring from room service your mother wont be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, youre dead. – David Mamet

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Morning
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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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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. – David Mamet

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Family
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Society
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Society is at odds with itself. – Clint Eastwood

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Society

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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Society

A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. – Christopher Lasch

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Society

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

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Society

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We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. – Author Unknown

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None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone. – Nicholas Sparks

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famous

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal. – Eknath Easwaran

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relationship

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, 1933

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Censorship