Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes

• “If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.”

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• “Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.”

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• “You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”

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• “There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.”

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• “He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals and homelss shelters and jails, because those people realize they need help. And do they are able to believe in strange phenomena. Funny how the world is backward. The really comfortable people don't always see much supernaturally, and to the ones who have to struggle, it's, like, breathing in their faces. The first are last... and the last are first.”

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• “Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?”

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• “If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.”

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• “Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.”

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• “If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.”

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• “People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.”

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• “People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.”

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• “Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.”

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• “I don’t really think our greatest memories are always great while they’re happening.”

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• “You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.”

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• “But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.”

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• “Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.”

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• “You're in my personal space, so get out of it.”

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• “People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.”

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• “Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so.”

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• “I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”

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• “Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.”

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• “People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.”

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• “Some doctors say a person who has only had same-sex attractions is, like, a zero. A person who has only had opposite-sex attractions is, like, a ten. He says most people fall between one and nine.”

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• “«People used to say I was weird,» he said. «I used to care. But I don't anymore. People shouldn't care, people shouldn't use words like weird once you hit junior year. Everyone's weird. That's the way I look at it.»”

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• “People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck.”

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