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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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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
All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
John Guare
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.
John Guare
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
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
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
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
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
The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
John Guare
Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.
John Guare
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
John Guare
I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
John Guare
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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
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
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
John Guare
The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.
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
