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#1

“Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on them arrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

tags: cigarettes

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#2

“A bitch always smokes." He looks back at Lucy. "A bitch is the opposite of a whore. A bitch doesn't need anybody. Or she wants people to think she doesn't need anybody. And she smokes to prove it.”
― C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948

tags: bitch, cigarettes, saint-paul-trois-châteaux-1948, smoking, whore

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#3

“As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it."

"That's because you have eight functioning brain cells."

"Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said.

Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: alaska, cigarettes, life, smart, smoking

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#4

“But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.”
― John Green

tags: cigarettes, looking-for-alaska, sex

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#5

“Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.”
― Jeffrey McDaniel

tags: cigarettes, love-humor

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#6

“There was a young lady named Mae
Who smoked without stopping all day;
As pack followed pack,
Her lungs first turned black,
And eventually rotted away.”
― Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer

tags: cigarettes, smoking

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#7

“Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there's a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it's scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette?”
― Tony Parsons

tags: cancer, cigarettes, smoking

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#8

“What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

tags: advice, alcohol, authors, bukowski, cigarettes, drink, funny, humor, ironic, irony, sarcasm, sex, smoke, writers, writing, writing-process

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#9

“I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there.

She blinked her eyes, and slowly a smile stretched her lips. She strolled to the truck and got in. "So, are you homicidal or merely as irritable as a wounded buffalo?"

"About halfway in between," he said through clenched teeth.

"Anything I can do to help?"

His eyes were narrow and intense. "It isn't just the cigarettes. Take off your panties and lock your legs around me, and I'll show you.”
― Linda Howard, Duncan's Bride

tags: arguments, cigarettes, quit-smoking, tension

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#10

“as the shadows assume
shapes
I fight the slow
retreat

now
my once-promise
dwindling
dwindling

now
lighting new cigarettes
pouring more
drinks

it has been a beautiful
fight

still
is.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: beautiful, beauty, bukowski, cigarettes, death, fight, life, promise, promises, shadow

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#11

“The dead do not need
aspirin or
sorrow,
I suppose.
but they might need
rain.
not shoes
but a place to
walk.
not cigarettes,
they tell us,
but a place to
burn.
or we're told:
space and a place to
fly
might be the
same.
the dead don't need
me.
nor do the
living.
but the dead might need
each
other.
in fact, the dead might need
everything we
need
and
we need so much
if we only knew
what it
was.
it is
probably
everything
and we will all
probably die
trying to get
it
or die
because we
don't get
it.
I hope
you will understand
when I am dead
I got
as much
as
possible.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

tags: after-death, after-life, afterlife, alive, aspirin, bukowski, cigarettes, dead, death, dying, everything, hope, knowledge, life, need, needs, poem, poetry, rain, remember, remembering, sorrow, the-afterlife, the-dead, the-living, tried, try, trying

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#12

“Interesting' people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.”
― Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days

tags: cigarettes, people

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#13

“Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a daily basis.”
― Joel Madden

tags: cigarettes, heroin

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#14

“I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.”
― Nick Flynn, Some Ether

tags: cigarettes, death, smoking, wonder

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#15

“I wasn’t very far away from figuring out the secret to love, no more than two miles or so, when my camel broke down and I got shot at by a pack of cigarettes.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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#16

“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: cancer, cigarette, cigarettes, death, inevitable, smoke, smoking

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#17

“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
― Marilyn vos Savant

tags: addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, cigarettes, drinking, drugs, humanity, interesting, smoking

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#18

“Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof. In your abuse thereof sinning against God harming yourselves both in person and goods, and raking also thereby the marks and notes of vanity upon you by the custom thereof making yourselves to be wondered at by all foreign civil nations and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and held in contempt; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
― King James I of England - VI of Scotland

tags: a-counterblaste-to-tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, smoke, smoking, tobacco

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#19

“The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing.”
― Hudson Maxim

tags: cigarette-smoke, cigarettes, smoking

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#20

“If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools—not men—it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.”
― Hudson Maxim

tags: cigarettes, degradation, imbecility, smoke, smoking

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#21

“It's a metaphor, see; you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― Augustus Water John Green

tags: cigarettes

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#22

“I once asked him why he smoked the world's most expensive cigarette, and he told me it was because he was a man of wealth and taste, at least according to Mick Jagger.”
― K.H. Koehler, The Devil Dances

tags: cigarettes, humorous, mick-jagger, the-devil, wealth

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#23

“Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.”
― Anthon Chekhov

tags: cigarettes, the-seagull, vodka

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#24

“Smoking’s banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body,” he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer.”
― Jo Nesbø

tags: alcohol, cigarettes, health, smoking

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#25

“He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: cigarettes, english-teacher, political-correct-crap, political-correctness, smoking

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#26

“Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

tags: cigarettes, the-seagull, vodka

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#27

“You smoke?”
“Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

tags: cancer, cigarette, cigarettes, health, idiocy, idiot, lung-cancer, poison, slow-death, smoking, stupidity, suicide, tobacco

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#28

“He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.”
― Lily King, Euphoria

tags: cambridge, cigarettes, whiskey, youth

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#29

“A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee.

These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz Poems R.M. Engelhardt

tags: books, cigarettes, coffee, life, r-m-engelhardt

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#30

“I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.”
― David Lynch

tags: artists-life, cigarettes, fire, live-forever, quit-smoking, quitting, smoking

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