“He and Marilyn were lovers, but this was never said in so many words. Explicitness about one’s romantic arrangements had apparently been deemed gauche. In my middle-class teen-age world, the whole apparatus of going steady, exchanging ID bracelets, smooching at dances, fighting, breaking up, submitting to the arbitration of friends — that was the point, the public drama.”
My Women, The New Yorker, 6 June 2005
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Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 9