Source: Skin
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
“I found a liquid cure
for my landlocked blues”
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
Sec. 130
The Gay Science (1882)
“There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.”
Speech (30 April 1954)
Source: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.”
Greg Heberlein (September 20, 1987) "Seattleite Eyes Northwest Stocks for Wall Street Institutions", The Seattle Times, p. D2.
Attributed
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
My Religion / Light in My Darkness, Ch 6 (1927)
Context: Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere … they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
