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Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

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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.

Source: The psychiatrist Berger to Conrad Jarrett, in Ordinary People, ch. 27, 1976.
-- Judith Guest, (Mar 29 1936-____), US novelist; She is best known for Ordinary People, 1976.


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