A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it can…

David Mamet
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten. ✨ David Mamet (1986). Writing in restaurants, Viking Adult
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