Anthology Quote by Judith Guest

“I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.”

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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.

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With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

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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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Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

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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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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…

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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…

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I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

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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…

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“It has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.”

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“Everything seems excessive, now, and too intense, too important.”

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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.

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When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am…

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