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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
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John Guare
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 5
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Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.
John Guare
People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.
John Guare
Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.
John Guare
1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.
John Guare
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
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
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
John Guare
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
John Guare
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
John Guare
The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.
John Guare
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
I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
John Guare
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
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
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
John Guare
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
John Guare
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
John Guare
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
John Guare
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
John Guare
You can't be a sort of pioneer.
John Guare
