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“As a French poet once said, some people smoke to put nicotine in their veins, others to put a cloud between them and others”
― Find Me
― Find Me
“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
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“My best guess about my own attraction to the habit is that I belong to a class of people whose lives are insufficiently structured...
We embrace a toxin as deadly as nicotine...because we have not yet found pleasures or routines that can replace the comforting, structure bringing rhythm of need and gratification that the cigarette habit offers. One word for this structuring might be "self medication"; another might be "coping".”
― How to Be Alone
We embrace a toxin as deadly as nicotine...because we have not yet found pleasures or routines that can replace the comforting, structure bringing rhythm of need and gratification that the cigarette habit offers. One word for this structuring might be "self medication"; another might be "coping".”
― How to Be Alone
“He took a deep drag on it, as if it were a kind of respirator in an otherwise oxygenless world.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Time stops for the duration of a cigarette: when you're smoking, you're acutely present to yourself; you step outside the unconscious rush of life. This is why the condemned are allowed a final cigarette...it's a lot easier to leave the world if you're certain that you have really been in it.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
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