Judith Guest Quotes

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• Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

  Judith Guest

  Depression, Simple, People

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.225, Penguin

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• Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

  Judith Guest

  Depression, Simple, Giving

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.225, Penguin

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• And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

  Judith Guest

  Reality, People, Twenties

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.92, Penguin

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• Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

  Judith Guest

  Writing, Space, Brain

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• Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

  Judith Guest

  Crazy, Pressure, Mental Illness

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• You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

  Judith Guest

  Family, Thinking, Live Your Life

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• Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

  Judith Guest

  Action, Life Is, Reason

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• And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

  Judith Guest

  Moving, Loss, Order

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.242, Penguin

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• Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

  Judith Guest

  Reality, People, May

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.93, Penguin

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• Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

  Judith Guest

  Writing, People

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• Make peace with what is.

  Judith Guest

  Peace, Making Peace

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• Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

  Judith Guest

  Running, People, Missing

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• . . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

  Judith Guest

  Crazy, Doors, Views

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.226, Penguin

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• To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

  Judith Guest

  Morning, Guiding Principles, Belief

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• Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

  Judith Guest

  Successful, People, Tragedy

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• Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

  Judith Guest

  Pain, Feelings, Feels

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.227, Penguin

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• Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

  Judith Guest

  Thinking, Giving, Riding

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.31, Penguin

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• Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

  Judith Guest

  People, Expectations, Needs

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• The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

  Judith Guest

  Despair, Skins, Together

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.2, Penguin

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• Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

  Judith Guest

  Love, Break Up, Soul And Body

  Judith Guest (1980). “Ordinary people”

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• I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

  Judith Guest

  Couple, Stories, Anthology

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• It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

  Judith Guest

  Who I Am, Ideas, Giving

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• Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

  Judith Guest

  Growing Up, Political, Growing

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• People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

  Judith Guest

  Life, Depression, People

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• It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

  Judith Guest

  Work, Two, Get Back

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