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• And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

  Jules Laforgue

  Health, Noses, Cigarette

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• He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most far gone. He was in the absolute, end stage - they have that wing in the hospital where they have given up on you. You can smoke pot and do anything you want. They had given up on him.

  Richard M. Schulze

  Recovery, Wings, Medicine

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• I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It's a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can't go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus - almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write.

  Athol Fugard

  Giving Up, Lying, Writing

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• Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, World, Way

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• Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  War, Moving, Air

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Jun 20, 2011

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• There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin

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• Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.

  Anne Bishop

  White, Expression, Missing

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.178, Penguin

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• These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Running, Couple

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Broken, Progress

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• Not sorry, not calling, not crying
  All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
  Seized by the gold of autumn,
  I will no longer be young.

  Sergei Yesenin

  Sorry, Autumn, White

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• All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Beautiful, Clouds, Mirrors

  How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975). Usually quoted as "smoke and mirrors."

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• There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

  John Lyly

  Fire, Arise

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.120, Manchester University Press

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• I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

  Bill Hicks

  America, Salute, Deals

  "Sane Man", 1989.

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• Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Suicide, Sex, School

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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 the marrow 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

  Home, Fire, Volcanoes

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.

  Archie Fire Lame Deer

  Eye, Air, Twinkling

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• It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of... it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason - The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'

  Rich Mullins

  Girl, Jesus, Kids

  "'The Lord's Prayer' (February 1994)". "Here in America". CD compilation by Rich Mullins, 2003.

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• I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

  Claire Denis

  Coffee, Perfect Days, Cigarette

  Interview with Adam Nayman, reverseshot.org. June 26, 2009.

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• Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Want, England

  "ROH/FWA Frontiers Of Honor". Event promoted by Ring Of Honor and Frontier Wrestling Alliance at York Hall in Bethnal Green, England, May 17, 2003.

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• My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

  CM Punk

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Drinking, Food

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• I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

  John Dalton

  Character, Science, Intelligent

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

  Graham Parker

  Smoking, If I Could, Ifs

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• Whatever you do, don't smoke.

  Yul Brynner

  Advice

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