"Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?"
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"Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly."
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"There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons."
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"Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower"
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"I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones."
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"I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip."
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"Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention."
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"One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect."
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"It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances."
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"I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get."
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"It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice."
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"It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is."
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"The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state."
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"Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers."
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"I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child."
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"You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair."
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"And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
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"I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own."
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"For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful."
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"I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth."
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