Famous quotes containing the words ugly and/or american:
“I’ll tell you something, Doc. Ever since I was born, everybody looks at me and says, “You’re ugly.” Makes me feel mean.... I’m saying, Doc, maybe because I look ugly—maybe if a man looks ugly he does ugly things.”
—David Boehm. Louis Friedlander. Edmond Bateman (Boris Karloff)
“It is in the nature of allegory, as opposed to symbolism, to beg the question of absolute reality. The allegorist avails himself of a formal correspondence between “ideas” and “things,” both of which he assumes as given; he need not inquire whether either sphere is “real” or whether, in the final analysis, reality consists in their interaction.”
—Charles, Jr. Feidelson, U.S. educator, critic. Symbolism and American Literature, ch. 1, University of Chicago Press (1953)