Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes & Sayings

#1. I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.

#2. The line between complete joy and complete terror is often thin.

#3. 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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#4. You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.

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#5. It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

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#6. Sometimes the things you search far and wide for are right under your nose.

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#7. I don't really think our greatest memories are always great while they're happening.

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#8. There is justice in an insanely cruel world.

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#9. I don't know if anybody thinks of themselves as bad. We all have excuses.

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#10. But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.

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#11. Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this.

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#12. At times there's a razor-thin line between truth and insanity.

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#13. The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday.

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#14. Perhaps they will remember Chris Creed and they will find their tolerance, their compassion.

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#15. Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it.

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#16. People love to see you get ahead - so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

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#17. Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?

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#18. Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

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#19. A person could explode if he had to think too much.

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#20. You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

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#21. Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.

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#22. People's lives can look so good on the outside and be so much dark shadow on the inside.

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#23. You can't photograph the hugest mysteries of the universe that really have nothing to do with what shows up before your eyes, under a microscope, through a telescope, in the pages of books.

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#24. People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

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#25. Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.

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#26. Love covers a myriad of plausibility structures.

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#27. If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

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#28. People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

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#29. If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.

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#30. You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

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#31. My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad - I've never changed my mind about that.

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#32. There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you ... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world.

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#33. You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to.

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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.

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#37. I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe.

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#38. 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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#39. Love and truth have no correlation.

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#40. It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.

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#41. You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.

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#42. Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.

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#43. You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family.

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#44. You're in my personal space, so get out of it.

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#45. People create their own little hells. They don't need my help

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#46. 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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