#ugliness

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That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.


Fay Wray


#admit #clutches #cover #created #deserted

Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized to it, the intelligentsia regarded it with suspicion. To most of her peers, 'beauty' smacked of the rarefied, the indulgent, the superfluous, the effete. How could persons of good conscience pursue the beautiful when there was so much suffering and injustice in the world? Ellen Cherry's answer was that if one didn't cultivate beauty, soon he or she wouldn't be able to recognize ugliness. The prevalence of social ugliness made commitment to physical beauty all the more essential. And the very presence in life of double-wide mobile homes, Magic Marker graffiti, and orange shag carpeting had the effect of making ills such as poverty, crime, repression, pollution, and child abuse seem tolerable. In a sense, beauty was the ultimate protest, and, in that it generally lasted longer than an orgasm, the ultimate refuge. The Venus de Milo screamed 'No!' at evil, whereas the Spandex stretch pant, the macrame plant holder were compliant with it. Ugly bedrooms bred ugly habits. Of course, it wasn't required of beauty that it perform a social function. That was what was valuable about it.


Tom Robbins


#beauty #social-injustice #ugliness #art

This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.


Lucy Grealy


#life #pain #singularity #ugliness #ugly

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.


Imelda Marcos


#call #corrupt #down #face #frivolous

الجمال والقبح ليسا في ذات الأشياء ، ولكنهما في الذات التي تتعامل مع الأشياء ، وفي الظرف الذي تكون فيه الأشياء


تركي الحمد


#novel #things #ugliness #beauty

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.


Charlie Fletcher


#beauty #courage #ugliness #beauty

I have an ugliness it's impossible to love.


Brian McGreevy


#love #ugliness #love

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.


Stephen King


#beauty #beholder #children #eye #eye of the beholder

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.


Joyce Carol Oates


#women #life

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.


Jung Chang


#been #between #china #chinese #constant