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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
“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”
-- Judith Guest

#Depression #Simple #Giving
“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
“Make notesâ€”Iâ€™ve lost more material than Iâ€™ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, itâ€™s not still up there in oneâ€™s brain. Itâ€™s in outer space and it ainâ€™t coming back.”
-- Judith Guest

#Space #Brain #Opinion
“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

#Break Up #Two #Personality
“People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.”
-- Judith Guest

#Life #People #Lips
“Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.”
-- Judith Guest

#Growing Up #Political #Growing
“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
“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.”
-- Judith Guest

#Identity #Sense Of Humor #Lost
“...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.”
-- Judith Guest

#Emotional #Weight #Way
“Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.”
-- Judith Guest

#Friendship #Thinking #My Best Friend
“For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.”
-- Judith Guest

#Good Night #Mean #Insomnia
“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
“Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.”
-- Judith Guest

#Reality #People #May
“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
“The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.”
-- Judith Guest

#Sleep #Editors #Two
“Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.”
-- Judith Guest

#Writing #People
“Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.”
-- Judith Guest

#Jesus #People #Solitude
“... the monotonous beauty of wealth.”
-- Judith Guest

#Wealth #Monotonous
“I've never been one to tear the social fabric.”
-- Judith Guest

#Tears #Fabric #Social
“It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.”
-- Judith Guest

#Work #Two
“My success is not who I am.”
-- Judith Guest

#Success #Who I Am
“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
“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
“Make peace with what is.”
-- Judith Guest

#Peace #Making Peace
“Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.”
-- Judith Guest

#Crazy #Pressure #Mental Illness
“Don't put anyone out of your heart, there's room for all.”
-- Judith Guest

#Heart #Rooms
“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”
-- Judith Guest

#Thinking #Giving #Riding
“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
“. . . 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

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