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Crime Quote by John Guare

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“Bob, it's the second night of violence in this normally quiet, yet generally swinging, Casino Capital of the East.”

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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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The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

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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…

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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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The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

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I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

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There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

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

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