"The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia."

-- Robert D. McFadden

#Mafia Quotes #Myth Quotes #Dies Quotes

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.”
“I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”
“I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.”
“I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.”
“In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.”
“A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.”
“And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.”

Source : "The Creation" l. 1 (1927)
“I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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