Judith Rossner Quotes

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Judith Rossner

That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

Judith Rossner

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

Judith Rossner

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

Judith Rossner

In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

Judith Rossner

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

Judith Rossner

Judith Rossner

Judith Rossner

Born: March 31, 1935

Died: August 9, 2005 (aged 70)

Bio: Judith Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr. Goodbar and August.

Known for:

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975)
Emmeline (1980)
August (1983)
His Little Women (1990)
To the precipice (1966)

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