313 Quotes About Smoking


  • Author Robert Penn Warren
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    I'd be (...) lying there on my back with my clothes on and looking up at the ceiling and watching the cigarette smoke flow up slow and splash against the ceiling like the upside-down slow-motion moving picture of the ghost of a waterfall or like the pale uncertain spirit rising up out of your mouth on the last exhalation, the way the Egyptians figured it, to leave the horizontal tenement of clay in its ill-fitting pants and vest.

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  • Author Dawn Flemington
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    I thought you quit smoking.""Did. For recreational purposes." His father flicked open his Zippo lighter. The smell of the lighter fluid filled the immediate proximity. "This is medicinal." He lit the cigarette, clicked the top of the lighter shut, and closed his eyes as he took in his first drag. "Ah. That feels better.

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  • Author Χρήστος Μπράβος
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    ΆστραΚαπνίζουν κ’ οι άγγελοι, είπε.Άμα σηκώσετε τη νύχτατο κεφάλι σας θα τις ιδείτετις κάφτρες των τσιγάρων τους.Τι καφενείο τι ουρανόςντουμάνι και φτυσιέςκι αέρας σάπιος(κι ο κάτω κόσμοςστάχτες κι αποτσίγαρα).

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  • Author Greg Proops
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    I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

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  • Author P G Wodehouse
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    ...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

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  • Author Michael Rubens
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    He'd end up back in his room again, moodily smoking whatever he could get his hands on, the sole source of light in the room the faint radioactive glow coming from the commemorative chunk of Earth in its crystal cube, inscribed with the famous quote from the Administration. AT LEAST WE GOT THE TERRORISTS, it said.

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