“His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.”

Ibid., p. 279
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Porque é bela a arte? Porque é inútil. Porque é feia a vida? Porque é toda fins e propósitos e intenções.

“And what,” he said, “if I’m not?”
Part I, Chapter VIII (p. 82)
The Privilege of the Sword (2006)

Variant: This world is an awful/ugly place not to have a best friend.
Source: Someone Like You (1998)

Kim
2000s, The Marshall Mathers L.P. (2000)

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

Interview with Chris Moyles, Radio One (2005)

Source: The Red Pyramid

Source: Behind The Spangles, Weir Is A Man In Full, Trey Graham, National Public Radio, 2010-02-26 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124121023&ft=1&f=1008, ; In response to gibes from Quebec sports announcers