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When she awoke, the world was on fire.
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world
shay
uglies
tally
traveling
fire
ugly
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Scott Westerfeld |
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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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loneliness
poem
poetry
people
beauty
superficial-beauty
bukowski
appearance
superficial
superficiality
classics
self
reflection
beautiful
mirror
lonely
self-esteem
soul
ugly
classic
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Charles Bukowski |
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.
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people
human
life
chemicals
breakfast-of-champions
kurt-vonnegut
body
ugly
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
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mind
uglies
tally
shoes
one
idea
ugly
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Scott Westerfeld |
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For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.
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women
relationship
love
mistress
ugly
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Milan Kundera |
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"You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-"
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ugly
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Gregory Maguire |
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I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
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ugly
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Mary Balogh |
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It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly.
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nausea
jean-paul
sartre
reflection
ugly
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
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That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.
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scars
ugly
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Nicholas Sparks |
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"Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly."
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ugly
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Scott Westerfeld |
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That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.
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beauty
brainwash
think-on
thought-provoking
pretty
thought
ugly
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Scott Westerfeld |
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"This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful for him. He was very young. He knew very little of life. He saw beauty but he did not feel any true passion. How could he? He did not know. He had not really encountered the force of beauty's opposite." "Are you more cynical now, then?" she asked him. "Cynical," he frowned, "No, not that. I know that there is an ugly side of life-and not just human life. I know that everything is not simply beautiful. I am not a romantic as this boy was. But I am not a cynic either. There is something enduring in all of life, Anne, something tough. Something. Something terribly weak yet incredibly powerful..."
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romantic
life
cynic
ugly
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Mary Balogh |
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The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?
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ugly
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Mary Balogh |
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They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.
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words
discarded
mouths
smoke
smiles
girls
pretty
conversations
ugly
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Markus Zusak |
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I sleep on my face, and then it does not frighten anybody in the morning.
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humor
ugly
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Ernest Hemingway |
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"{ }
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integrity
coop
credulity
divines
dreadful
catholic-church
luminous
martyrs
christendom
catholic
sages
believers
catholicism
submission
cruelty
realization
church
shame
lie
contempt
ritual
ugly
hell
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H.G. Wells |
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I thought the two ugly ones, Marty and Laverne, were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.
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insulted
ugly
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J.D. Salinger |
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-and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.
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quite
ugly
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Michael F. Moore |
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How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the epoque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.
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arts
empathy
beauty
secret
imagination
darkness
cryptic
ugly
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Charles Baudelaire |
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I'm sorry, she thought. But she said nothing. I can't save you or anybody else from being dark. She thought of Frank. I wonder if he's dead yet. Said the wrong things; spoke out of line. No, she thought. Somehow he likes Japs. Maybe he identifies with them because they're ugly. She had always told Frank that he was ugly. Large pores. Big nose. Her own skin was finely knit, unusually so. Did he fall dead without me? A fink is a finch, a form of bird. And they say birds die.
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fink
japs
nose
pores
ugly
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Philip K. Dick |
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So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.
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progress
elements
german
germans
ugly
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Kate Atkinson |
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Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.
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gloss
photograph
magazine
photo
shallow
plastic
superficial
fake
makeup
fashion
pretty
ugly
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Rebecca McNutt |
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"Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guides, she doesn't have to see Peg inviting the Purolator man in for "a cup of coffee". If Harvey is in the anime drawing club, he doesn't have to see Peg kissing Mr. Cooper from across the street, even if all the other neighbours secretly know what's going on. Tony has no idea, all he knows is that Peg isn't the same Peg he married back in 2003. All he knows is that she's changed a great deal, and not for the better, like a beautiful butterfly regressing back into a devouring, ugly caterpillar in the span of only a couple of months."
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kids
marriage
kiss
change
afterschool
butterfly
cheater
extracurricular-activities
girl-scouts
homewrecker
neighbours
purolator
caterpillar
anime
drawing
street
coffee
parents
beautiful
children
ugly
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Rebecca McNutt |