Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer
Source: The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion
“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
— Charles Bukowski, book Ham on Rye
Source: Ham on Rye
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Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 17
Context: Later, hiding in the latrine from the black boys, I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
Avram Davidson (1923–1993) novelist
Vergil in Averno (1987)
E.M. Forster book Aspects of the Novel
in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
Source: Aspects of the Novel (1927), Chapter One: Introductory
“You can't hate the mirror because you're ugly.”
Kyle Bass (1969) businessperson
BBC HARDTalk interview, 15 November 2011.
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Variant: I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both.
Source: The Book Thief
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Expecting to Fly, from Buffalo Springfield Again
Song lyrics, With Buffalo Springfield