Judith Guest - Ordinary People (1976)

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People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

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It made me feel good. To know the nuts still have a chance to take over the world.

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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.

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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?

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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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Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

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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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Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.

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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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To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will.

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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.

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