Quotes from work
Ordinary People

Judith Guest

Ordinary People is Judith Guest's first novel. Published in 1976, it tells the story of a year in the life of the Jarretts, an affluent suburban family trying to cope with the aftermath of two traumatic events.

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

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

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

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

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

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

“… crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.”

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

Similar authors

Judith Guest 5

Novelist, screenwriter 1936

George Raymond Richard Martin 35

American writer, screenwriter and television producer

Orhan Pamuk 55

Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literatu…

F. Scott Fitzgerald 411

American novelist and screenwriter

Jacques Prevért 12

French poet, screenwriter

Françoise Sagan 34

French writer

Henri Barbusse 197

French novelist

Erich Maria Remarque 63

German novelist

John Galsworthy 48

English novelist and playwright

Billy Wilder 23

American filmmaker