Judith Guest
Judith Guest
Judith Guestis an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth29 March 1936
CountryUnited States of America
chance cleared discovered house kept led office perfection promptly rules terrifying
He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean. . . not anything cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.
hard people smile stiff
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
guiding necessary principle reason
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle
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I taught more school, had two more sons and then in 1970 I wrote a short story and sent it to a national contest, where I won 60th prize out of 100.
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I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people.
running people missing
Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
thinking giving too-much
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
pain feelings feels
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.
reality people may
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
action life-is ordinary-people
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.
tired writing long
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
blessed thinking luck
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
tears fabric social
I've never been one to tear the social fabric.
work two get-back
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.