#ch

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#find #only #search #sun #will

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

#anything #artist #become #create #devour

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. ↗

— David Mamet

#conscious #constant #culture #evolves #exists

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer. ↗

— David Mamet

#employer #employers #i #know #out

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. ↗

— David Mamet

#changed #decades #i #i believe #liberal

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?' ↗

— David Mamet

#experience #i #know #life #life experience

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. ↗

— David Mamet

#always #beat #exuberance #old #old age

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife. ↗

— David Mamet

#drama #extent #our #respond #which

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

#branches #citizenry #failed #government #mass