#experience

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

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

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. ↗

— David Mamet

#generation #know #least #making #mistakes

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#believe #book #class #class struggle #closed

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#another #beautiful #experience #land #never

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#first #love #experience

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#experiences #feels #gregarious #intense #less

Ecstasy..."When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper. ↗

— Barabara Carrellas

#inspiration #life-experience #experience

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#crowd #experience #front #grand #grand prix