"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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Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Body of Christopher Creed”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Carol Plum-Ucci

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Faults Quotes

“Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.”
“There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.”
“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”
“I plan on having parties when Iâ€™m 30. I plan on having fun when Iâ€™m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichÃ©d â€˜should haves â€˜if Iâ€™dâ€™ â€˜wish Iâ€™dâ€™”
“Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.”
“I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?”
“I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.”
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.”

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