John Guare Quotes

Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

I don’t remember.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

out of sight,out of mind

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Out of sight, out of mind.

We forget how quickly the American people forget.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

The color white is the absence of memory.

...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.

I can't remember, because I never knew.

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.