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• This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache.

  J. B. Smoove

  Italian, Giving, Restaurants

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• I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you'd see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

  Brian McKnight

  Play, Piano, Guy

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• Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready to inquire, dragging the vampire along behind it on the investigation.

  Gail Carriger

  Curiosity, Vampire, Dapper

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• Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Stupid, Eggs

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, p.8, Pottermore

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• My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

  Edmond Rostand

  Men, Spurs, Finest

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• He...boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable.

  Gail Carriger

  Slides, Lips, Embarrassed

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• As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

  Charles Portis

  Coffee, Men, Dew

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.94, A&C Black

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• It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.

  Robin Olds

  War, Fighting, Battle

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.284, Macmillan

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• Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had he always had it? For how many centuries had his poor abused upper lip labored under the burden of such vegetation?

  Gail Carriger

  Hair, Long, Age

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• Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

  Peter Thiel

  Photography, Optimistic, Player

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.76, Crown Business

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• There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to do a comedy whose chief characters are photographic enlargements. Those people we see in doorways. Newlyweds, sergeants, dead girls, an anonymous crowd full of mustaches and wrinkles. It should be terrible. If I focus it well, it will possess pathos without consolation. In the midst of those people I will place an authentic fairy.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Girl, Character, Past

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• "Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Book, Chocolate, Titles

  Source: poetryforchildren.blogspot.com

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• I used to do that routine about my daughter being a hippy with the dirty sneakers and dirty blue jeans, but why a beard? And you know people would actually come to me and say, 'Does your daughter really have a beard?' I'd say, 'No, I made her shave it, but I let her keep the mustache.

  Jean Carroll

  Daughter, Dirty, Blue

  "Jean Carroll, 98, Is Dead; Blended Wit and Beauty" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. January 2, 2010.

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• My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

  Nick Offerman

  Uncles, Illinois, Guy

  "Our Valentine Gift to You". Interview with Kera Bolonik, nymag.com. February 7, 2010.

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• If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.

  Janet McTeer

  Men, Hair, Play

  "Up Close With 2011’s Oscar Women: Glenn Close, Carey Mulligan, Tilda Swinton". Interview with Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. November 25, 2011.

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• Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

  Herman Melville

  Courage, Yield, Battle

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.45

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• She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.

  Noel Coward

  Sarcastic, Common

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• The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.

  Joseph Brodsky

  East, Green, Asia

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• I'm completely fascinated by the health-care debate going on in the United States, especially by posters of Obama with a little mustache drawn on his upper lip. Is that what Hitler is really known for, his health-care plan? To quote Bill Maher, "I haven't seen this many pissed-off old white people since they cancelled 'Murder She Wrote.'"

  David Sedaris

  White, People, Pissed Off

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fall, Writing, Boys

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

  Jean Dujardin

  Zorro, Roles, Musketeers

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

  Natalie Portman

  Drinking, Hero, Glasses

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• What made me decide to run was the dire state of the economy and the non-leadership of President Obama. At that point in time, my campaign put a mustache on Obama as part of the national campaign drive.

  Kesha Rogers

  Running, President, Campaigns

  "Kesha Rogers, Texas Democrat And Anti-Obama Nominee, Disavowed By Party Members". Interview with Gene Demby, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Two, Rivers, Boston

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

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• Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Men, Suffering, Adjectives

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