Avoiding Quote by John Guare Download Open image “Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.” — John Guare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoiding Comedy Core Humiliation Humor Shame Tragedy Tragedy and comedy
“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. — Barbara Stanwyck Copy Share Image
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share Image
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… — John Guare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share Image
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… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it. — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils… — Raymond Briggs Copy Share Image
Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting. — Craig Armstrong Copy Share Image
In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
