John Guare Quotes

• It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

  John Guare

  Hope, Yesterday, Littles

  John Guare (1978). “Landscape of the Body”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Feydeau's one rule of playwriting:
  Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
  Knock Knock.
  Enter Character B.

  John Guare

  Character, Long, Perfect

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• The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"

  John Guare

  Dark, Risk, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

  John Guare

  Six Degrees Of Separation, Life Is, Brushes

  John Guare (2016). “Six Degrees of Separation: A Play”, p.116, Vintage

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• I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

  John Guare

  Names, Venice, People

  "Six Degrees of Separation". www.imdb.com. December 8, 1993.

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• The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

  John Guare

  Voice, Imagination, Trying

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• I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

  John Guare

  Thinking, Risk

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

  John Guare

  Inspirational, Hands, Mouths

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• I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.

  John Guare

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

  John Guare

  Book, Details, Make Sense

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

  John Guare

  Writing, Play, Buttons

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

  John Guare

  Writing, Years, Twenties

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

  John Guare

  Past, World, States

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• There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

  John Guare

  Play, Perfect, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.

  John Guare

  Country, Patriotic, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

  John Guare

  Roots, Switzerland, Where We Come

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

  John Guare

  Believe, Science, Use

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• New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

  John Guare

  Men, Color, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

  John Guare

  New York, Cities, People

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• You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

  John Guare

  Kind, Ifs

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

  John Guare

  Real, Believe, Imagination

  John Guare (2010). “Six Degrees of Separation”, p.22, A&C Black

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• I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

  John Guare

  Business, People, Crime

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• What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

  John Guare

  Heart, Eye, Two

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• I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

  John Guare

  Christ, Young, Brides

  John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.44, The Overlook Press

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• Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

  John Guare

  Tragedy, Comedy, Humiliation

  John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.5, The Overlook Press

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