You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for … - John Guare

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Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

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.

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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.

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