Ugly quotes
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"I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short"
"I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!"
"Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love."
"Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister."
"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."
"Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit."
"Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly."
"My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dictionary. I don't like to be ugly, I seek out what is beautiful, and if my great search is for freedom and beauty, I can't be vulgar, ordinary."
"You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly."
"You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes."
"It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face."
"But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die."
"Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait."
"She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English."
"That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity."
"It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful."
"Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk."
"One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way."
