John Guare Quotes

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Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

John Guare

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

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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

John Guare

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

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet. The president of the United States. A gondolier in Venice. Fill in the names. I find that a) extremely comforting that we're so close and b) like Chinese water torture that we're so close.

John Guare

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

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

John Guare

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

John Guare

John Guare

John Guare

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Born: February 5, 1938 (age 87)

Bio: John Guare is an Irish American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body.

Known for:

The House of Blue Leaves (1971)
Six Degrees of Separation (1990)
Landscape of the Body (1978)
A Free Man of Color (2010)
Lydie Breeze (1982)

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