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You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. "What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?" And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
David Mamet (Writing for character Charles Morse in movie: The Edge)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119051/

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A. Hopkins was playing fictional billionaire Charles Morse, lost in the woods in the movie: The Edge.

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If you quoted Roark's courtroom speech from the Fountainhead, would you attribute it to Gary Cooper? You should edit this quote to attribute it the the character, or the screen writer, not the actor, no matter how much I enjoy his work.



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Ted,

What a terrible mistake of mine that was! [edited now]

Thanks for keeping me an honest man.

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From Wikipedia on David Mamet, "Writing in The Village Voice, he announced that he was no longer a 'brain-dead liberal,' but instead believed in free market thinkers, such as Thomas Sowell, "our greatest contemporary philosopher."

He has never been brain-dead as a writer! Welcome to the freedom express, David, even though politically stalled at the moment, it is still the only one going the right direction.



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I was lost in the woods a couple of times. Actually, quite fun. Even more fun than being lost in a field in Flushing, Queens.





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The Edge is an outstanding movie on many levels and deserves a review here.   

I agree 100% with the sentiment expressed in the quote.

Being lost in the woods is a metaphor, of course.  Here we all are in the midlst of a financial crisis.  What are you doing for yourself?  Life itself in the best of times is still a matter of being lost in the woods in some way. 




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