

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“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.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
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Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
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“It's not the cigarette that kills you, it's the thoughts behind the cigarette that does.”
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“Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
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