Ugly Quotes - Page 39

• There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

  John Steinbeck

  Condescension And, Condescension, East Of Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.144, Penguin

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• But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .

  Graham Greene

  Angel, Light, Satan

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Collected Edition: The power and the glory”

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• Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.

  Henry Miller

  Distance, Space, Needs

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. “Narcissus is a loser! He’s so weak, he can’t bench-press a Kleenex. He’s so lame, when you look up lame on Wikipedia, it’s got a picture of Narcissus—only the picture’s so ugly, no one ever checks it out.

  Rick Riordan

  Nymphs, Arms, Wikipedia

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• Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Real, Mind

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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• I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

  Thomas Harris

  Life, Growing Up, Mistake

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

  Joe Hill

  People, Tragic, Written

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• Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like superman-exept with only the underwear. I wasn't sure what to say except: "Put some clothes on!" "These children are under my protection," Bes insisted. "I don't know you," I said, "I never met you before today." "Nonsense. You expressly asked for my attention." "I didn't ask for the Speedo Patrol!

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Clothes, Underwear

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• It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Stupid, Believe, Circles

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• I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

  Alice Walker

  Voice, Black, Listening

  The Color Purple (1982)

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• I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.

  John Green

  Zits, Cabal, Knows

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.67, Penguin

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• My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

  Eloisa James

  Eye, Men, Swans

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• A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?

  Laini Taylor

  Life Is, Wave, Weariness

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.596, Hachette UK

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• How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Moments, Reason

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

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• If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

  Tim Tebow

  Temptation, Events, Easier

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• Love is an ugly, terrible business practiced by fools. It’ll trample your heart and leave you bleeding on the floor. And what does it really get you in the end? Nothing but a few incredible memories that you can’t ever shake. The truth is, there’s gonna be other girls out there. I mean, I hope. But I’m never gonna get another first love. That one is always gonna be her.

  Jennifer Flackett

  Girl, Memories, Heart

  "Little Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pugs, Far Away

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Depressing, People

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• Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

  Chris Colfer

  Book, Get Better, Chapters

  Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Phrases, World, Domination

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• I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Miserable

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• J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Song, Hurt, Cutting

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• So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Happy Life, Knowing, Forever

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• But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die.

  Kim Harrison

  Dies

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• You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me." "I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug.

  Nalini Singh

  Football, Thinking, Might

  Nalini Singh (2006). “Slave to Sensation”, p.236, Penguin

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