Ordinary People
Judith Guest
Top 10 Best Quotes
“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”
“Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.”
“. . . 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.”
“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”
“Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.”
“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.”
“The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.”
“People have a right to be the way they are.”
“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.”
“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.”
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