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Make peace with what is.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Peace
Making Peace
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My success is not who I am.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Success
Who I Am
Success Is
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... the monotonous beauty of wealth.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Monotonous
Wealth
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I've never been one to tear the social fabric.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Fabric
Social
Tears
Social Fabric
Tear
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Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Jesus
People
Solitude
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I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Blessed
Luck
Thinking
Draw
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Don't put anyone out of your heart, there's room for all.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Heart
Rooms
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Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Growing
Growing Up
Household
Political
Ours
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I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Long
Novel
Tired
Writing
Time Long Long Time
Time Tired Long
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People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Depression
Life
Lips
People
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People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Smile
Damn
Lips
Stiff
Upper
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With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Feels
Pressure
Who I Am
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Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
Judith Guest / Novelist
May
People
Reality
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It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Work
Get Back
Two
Work Day Every Day
Requires
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Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
Judith Guest / Novelist
People
Writing
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Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Crazy
Mental Illness
Pressure
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The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Editors
Sleep
Two
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For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Good Night
Bed
Insomnia
Mean
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Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Depression
Feelings
Giving
Simple
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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 / Novelist
Giving
Riding
Thinking
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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 / Novelist
Anthology
Couple
Stories
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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.
Judith Guest / Novelist
I Am Me New
Me I Am New
Enjoying
Short Stories
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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 / Novelist
People
Reality
Twenties
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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 / Novelist
Feelings
Feels
Pain
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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 / Novelist
Morning
Belief
Guiding Principles
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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 / Novelist
Family
Live Your Life
Thinking
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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 / Novelist
Despair
Skins
Together
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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 / Novelist
Running
Missing
People
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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 / Novelist
Cards
Courageous
People
Successful
Tragedy
Me People Because
Me People Cards
Handed
Tragedies
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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.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Identity
Lost
Sense Of Humor
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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 / Novelist
Crazy
Doors
Views
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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 / Novelist
Break Up
Love
Smile
Soul And Body
Two
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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!
Judith Guest / Novelist
Mad
Remember
Who I Am
Center
I Am Me Back
Forgetting
Notice
Remembering
The Only Thing
Trips
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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 / Novelist
Loss
Moving
Order
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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 / Novelist
Action
Life Is
Reason
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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.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Best Friend
Friendship
Jerk
My Best Friend
Thinking
Complete
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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 / Novelist
Expectations
Needs
People
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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 / Novelist
Space
Brain
Writing
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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.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Emotional
Sentimental
Weight
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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.
Judith Guest / Novelist
Glad
Allowed
Me I Am Live
Financially
Otherwise
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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 / Novelist
Giving
Ideas
Obvious
Subtle
Who I Am
I Am Me Looking
Hoping
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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 / Novelist
Depression
Giving
People
Simple
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