Judith Guest Quotes
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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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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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And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
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Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
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Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
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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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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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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.