Upset quotes
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"I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there."
"It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up."
"You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations."
"No I don't have a sex tape and I'm kind of upset that I don't. You know why? 'Cause I'm really good."
"And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation."
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."
"There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it."
"A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some."
"Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?"
"When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married!"
"The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still."
"The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy."
"You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting."
"My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago."
"There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing."
