“Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.”
Source: The Broom of the System
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David Foster Wallace185
American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008Related quotes
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
"Pretty on the Inside"
Song lyrics, Pretty on the Inside (1991)
Michelle Phillips (1944) Singer, actress
The Chicago Tribune http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-07-05/entertainment/8602170918_1_michelle-phillips-mamas-papa-john (July 5, 1986)
“Of all the girls that are so smart,
There's none like pretty Sally.”
Henry Carey (1687–1743) English composer and playwright
Sally in our Alley (c. 1725). Compare: "Of all the girls that e’er was seen, There's none so fine as Nelly", Jonathan Swift, Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet.
“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Six
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Boris Vian (1920–1959) French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer
“So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Part One, Ch. 3
On the Road (1957)