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Judith Guest Quotes (displaying: 1 - 27 of 27 quotes)

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I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.
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People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.
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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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People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.
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I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
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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.
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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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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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I've never been one to tear the social fabric.
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I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
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Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.
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Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
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With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
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Eyes closed a knee in his back hand at his neck forcing his face into the floor of the elevator rough under his cheek smell of vomit and matted fur "God don't hurt me" struggles against indignity his pajamas pulled down around his knees a needle sunk deep into his thigh twists moans and all of it loose like water flowing salt tickles inner edges of his eyes into his mouth twists onto his back arms over his head raw wails of anguish break off in pieces hurt his ears "Baby it's okay" Leo is over him lifts coaxing "Let's get up off the floor huh?" arm around his waist sags heavy his wrist aches where Leo holds him dragged along the watery dark he rolls off Leo's shoulder to the bed eyes closed hands folded in prayer between his legs can't look "God don't hurt me. Please.
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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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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.
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My success is not who I am.
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She hands him his coffee; crosses to the doorway; motes of dust flutter nervously in her wake.
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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.
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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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I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
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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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Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
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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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Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
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