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But shame, a breaking open of the heart before God, leads, so the Rabbis say, to that true self-knowledge necessary for change. For
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David Mamet |
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How was her crumbcake?
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David Mamet |
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5843020
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The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.
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worship
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David Mamet |
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3017b7b
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The political impulse, similarly, must, however manifested, proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions
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David Mamet |
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The man had been the head of the postwar European operation called Aliyah Bet, the clandestine resettlement of the Jewish remnant of the Holocaust in Palestine. He had come to this position as a senior member of the Palmach, the fighting arm of the Haganah, which was the underground Jewish Army in Palestine, under the British Mandate.
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David Mamet |
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bbf43b6
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The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.
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David Mamet |
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6b1a045
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We long ago ceased expecting that a President speak his own words. We no longer expect him actually to know the answers to questions put to him. We have, in effect, come to elect newscasters-and by a similar process: not for their probity or for their intelligence, but for their "believability." "Hope" is a very different exhortation than, for example, save, work, cooperate, sacrifice, think. It means: "Hope for the best, in a process over ..
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obama
politics
tyranny-of-cliches
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David Mamet |
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5bcaed8
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Roma Lingk Roma ,i>is talking to him. * * * : . . . Eh? What I'm saying, what is our life? It's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's Where is the ? And what is it that we're afraid of? Loss. What else? The
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David Mamet |
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4ec478b
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The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can't like it.
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audience
modern-art
storytelling
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David Mamet |
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JOHN: I'll tell you a story about myself. Do you mind? I was raised to think myself stupid. That's what I want to tell you. CAROL: What do you mean? JOHN: Just what I said. I was brought up, and my earliest, and most persistent memories are of being told that I was stupid. "You have such intelligence. Why must you behave so stupidly?" Or, "Can't you understand? Can't you understand?" And I could not understand. I could not understand. CAROL..
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David Mamet |
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As a youth I enjoyed -- indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered -- the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism. It later occurred to me that his plays were copyrighted, and that he, like I, was living through the operations of that same free market. His protestations were not borne out by his actions, neither could they be. Why, then, did he profess Communism? Because it sold. The public's endorsement of his play..
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communism
humour
irony
playwriting
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David Mamet |
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If I fail all the time, it must be that I think of myself as a failure. If I do not want to think of myself as a failure, perhaps I should begin by succeeding now and again. Look. The tests, you see, which you encounter, in school, in college, in life, were designed, in the most part, for idiots. By idiots. There is no need to fail at them. They are not a test of your worth. They are a test of your ability to retain and spout back misinform..
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David Mamet |
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Somebody told you, and you hold it as an article of faith, that higher education is an unassailable good. This notion is so dear to you that when I question it you become angry. Good. Good, I say. Are not those the very things which we should question? I say college education, since the war, has become so a matter of course, and such a fashionable necessity, for those either of or aspiring to to the new vast middle class, that we espouse it..
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David Mamet |
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reason.
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David Mamet |
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What gives you the right. Yes. To speak to a woman in your private ... Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You feel yourself empowered ... you say so yourself. To strut. To posture. To "perform." To "Call me in here ..." Eh? You say that higher education is a joke. And treat it as such, you treat it as such. And confess to a taste to play the Patriarch in your class. To grant this. To deny that. To embrace your students."
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David Mamet |
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the Great Actor, capable of bringing herself to tears, may extort our admiration for her "accomplishment," but she will never leave us stronger; she has made us pay a price, and made us pretend we like it, but we leave the theatre moved only by our capacity to be moved."
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David Mamet |
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abaf07e
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Fuck you.
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David Mamet |
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198b823
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CHARLES: I believe that any professional bears the shame of the questionable worth of his ministrations. I know of my racket what you know of yours: that, for the most part, we are paid for the ability to keep a straight face. While accomplishing little or nothing.
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David Mamet |
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68669da
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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David Mamet |
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director
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David Mamet |
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9754192
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Cop couldn't find his fucking couch, the living room.
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David Mamet |
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c1fd726
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You ever take a dump, made you feel you'd just slept for twelve hours?
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David Mamet |
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Yes, well that's very cute, but you're running this office like a bunch of bullshit.
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David Mamet |
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c6081f9
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Anybody that talks to this asshole is a fuckin' asshole.
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David Mamet |
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c544ebd
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Fuck the machine? FUCK THE MACHINE! What is this, courtesy class? You're fucked, Rick.
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David Mamet |
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0fbdf03
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Cop couldn't find his dick, two hands and a map.
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David Mamet |
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f55c565
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Well, to the law, you're an accessory. Before the fact.
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David Mamet |
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6778269
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That's fucked. That's fucked. You don't look at the fucking percentage. You look at the gross.
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David Mamet |
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You are a shithead, Williamson. If you can't think on your feet you oughta keep your mouth shut.
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David Mamet |
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A man should BE his job. You are FUCKED at yours.
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David Mamet |