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

— David Mamet

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Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one. ↗

— Method Man

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Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

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I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

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

— David Mamet

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I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. ↗

— David Mamet

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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. ↗

— David Mamet

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In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

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

— David Mamet

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