“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”
― Dalí's Mustache
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”
― Dalí's Mustache
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always try to do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, are great.”—Mark Twain”
― Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
― Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“You don't know for certain about God until you're dead.”
― Shōgun, Volume 1
― Shōgun, Volume 1
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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