Judith Guest Quotes
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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.
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My success is not who I am.
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Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
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I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
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Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.
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I've never been one to tear the social fabric.
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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.
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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.
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The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.
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Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
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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.
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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.
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Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
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People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
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I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
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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.
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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?
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I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!
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Make peace with what is.
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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.
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With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
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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.
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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.
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Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.
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Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
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It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
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Don't put anyone out of your heart, there's room for all.
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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.
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...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.
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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
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