What did David Mamet mean by: Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge. - David Mamet Playwright · USA Copy
+ Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, David Mamet, 0 - David Mamet Playwright · USA
+ Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mamet, Deep Thought, Humor, 0 - David Mamet Playwright · USA
+ The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, David Mamet, Acceptable, Writing, 0 - David Mamet Playwright · USA
+ The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. Feraz Zeid, November 1, 2023December 26, 2023, David Mamet, Essence, Philosophy, 0 - David Mamet Playwright · USA
+ Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mamet, Sex, Storytelling, 0 - David Mamet Playwright · USA
+ The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mamet, Dream, Progress, Records, 0 - David Mamet Playwright · USA
+ Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mamet, Regret, Sovereign, 0 - David Mamet Playwright · USA
+ As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Mamet, Want Something, 0 - David Mamet Playwright · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England