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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
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John Guare
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 5
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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.
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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.
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Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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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.
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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
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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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.
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