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6d8e727
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Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.
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smoking
stereotypes
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David Sedaris |
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fe6f883
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"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."
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cigarettes
life
smart
smoking
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John Green |
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7f4becc
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Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office--the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement--is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.
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assistance
bupropion
depression
future
happiness
hays-office
horoscopes
life
measurement
mentorship
perception
publicity
reality
self-delusion
smoking
soothsaying
uncertainty-principle
virtues
werner-heisenberg
writers
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Christopher Hitchens |
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acdcdc2
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"Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson"
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knitting
sarcasm
smoking
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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2ca59d7
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After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.
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pipe
smoking
tobacco
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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acc6f22
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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.
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smoking
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Edward Gorey |
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d3364c4
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I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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smoking
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John Green |
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7398a96
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Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.
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cancer
humor
life
smoking
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J.R. Ward |
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ceeb62f
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She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
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cigarette
cigarettes
death
inevitable
smoke
smoking
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Gillian Flynn |
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d701800
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You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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health
philosophy
smoking
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William Saroyan |
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331c983
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"I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. "And you so intelligent!" "Excuse me?" said tom "Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it." "How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option"
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smoking
witty
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Stephen Fry |
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86fde22
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I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.
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death
smoking
wonder
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Nick Flynn |
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fa51228
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"You smoke?" "Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?"
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cigarette
cigarettes
health
idiocy
idiot
lung-cancer
poison
slow-death
smoking
stupidity
suicide
tobacco
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Richard K. Morgan |
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5743460
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If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.
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smoking
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Isaac Asimov |
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5ab42bf
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"Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud, but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hours just wanting to make it through the day. There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got through and the sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories, but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk tick tick tick me not making a sound and some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind, but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine. This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely ways but you can not let it. I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. the smoking and the starving, the running, the madness, thinking it will help but it only feeds the fire and I don't want to hurt myself anymore. I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me--little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again.
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alcohol
anxiety
art
balance
be-okay
chest
coffee
crying
drinking
ed
fine
flowers
focus
grateful
gratitude
happiness
hope
hopeful
hopeless
hurt
inspiration
joy
lovely
lovers
madness
mental-health
music
new-day
okay
panic
panic-attack
panic-attacks
park
recovery
sad
sadness
self-destruction
self-harm
sing
singing
sky
smoking
songs
sound
spring
starving
tears
walking
well-being
wellness
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Charlotte Eriksson |
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b2a1f7e
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The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, let's the texter/former smoker drop out of any social interaction for a second to get a break and make a little love to the beautiful object. We need something, people. We can't live propless.
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cigarettes
smoking
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Aimee Bender |
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307b543
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you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes
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humor
smoking
zifnab
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Margaret Weis |
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f0476b4
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He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he'd watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.
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smoking
stress-relief
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Christine Feehan |
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6d4e7ed
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The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate smut. I rewrapped the book and locked it up behind the seat. A racket like that, out in the open on the boulevard, seemed to mean plenty of protection. I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain and thought about it.
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rain
smoking
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Raymond Chandler |
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689f1e0
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Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ... Ruined is a strong word, I'd say. ... It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.
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cigarettes-smoking
smoking
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Mohsin Hamid |
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1d99ca5
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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.
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english-teacher
political-correct-crap
political-correctness
smoking
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Stephen Chbosky |
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db255e9
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It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.
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place
smoking
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David Sedaris |
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3a75594
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"Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restuarants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."
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smoking
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David Sedaris |
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2d8f7a3
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Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had--not unlike Isaiah Berlin--often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had always seemed to me quite the reverse: a touch dandyish perhaps but--as the saying goes--perfectly secure in his masculinity. On one occasion, after lunch in Georgetown, he took me with him to a renowned local tobacconist and asked to do something I had never witnessed before: 'try on' a pipe. In case you ever wish to do this, here is the form: a solemn assistant produces a plastic envelope and fits it over the amber or ivory mouthpiece. You then clamp your teeth down to feel if the 'fit' and weight are easy to your jaw. If not, then repeat with various stems until your browsing is complete. In those days I could have inhaled ten cigarettes and drunk three Tanqueray martinis in the time spent on such flippancy, but I admired the commitment to smoking nonetheless. Taking coffee with him once in a shopping mall in Stanford, I saw him suddenly register something over my shoulder. It was a ladies' dress shop. He excused himself and dashed in, to emerge soon after with some fashionable and costly looking bags. 'Mariam,' he said as if by way of explanation, 'has never worn anything that I have not bought for her.' On another occasion in Manhattan, after acting as a magnificent, encyclopedic guide around the gorgeous Andalusia ( ) exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, he was giving lunch to Carol and to me when she noticed that her purse had been lost or stolen. At once, he was at her service, not only suggesting shops in the vicinity where a replacement might be found, but also offering to be her guide and advisor until she had selected a suitable new . I could no more have proposed myself for such an expedition than suggested myself as a cosmonaut, so what this says about my own heterosexual confidence I leave to others.
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autobiography
carol-blue
edward-said
georgetown-washington
heterosexuality
manhattan
masculinity
museum-of-modern-art
pipes
purses
self-confidence
shyness
smoking
stanford
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Christopher Hitchens |
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3ccf851
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And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better than smoking, that's what I say. It's the new, lung-safe cigarette.
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cell-phones
cigarettes
smoking
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Aimee Bender |
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da1b5b6
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"She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."
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cigarette
dragging
line
live
loud
mind
music
noise
noisy
place
question
quiet
radio
smoking
song
thinking
thought
tommy-james
world
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Rebecca McNutt |
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08a86d2
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"The girl who signed her papers in lipstick
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cool
lipstick
smoking
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Billy Collins |
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5ae445e
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Among the world's evils--fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation-- smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.
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smoking
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Jess Walter |
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8400671
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<> la voce di Rhage lo raggiunse in bagno. <> Qhuinn diede una rapida controllata alle basette con la mano. A posto. <>, strillo al di sopra del getto d'acqua. Chiuse il rubinetto e usci dalla doccia, asciugandosi mentre tornava in camera da letto. Ritto accanto a un Tohr tutto sorridente, Rhage teneva le braccia dietro la schiena. <> Qhuinn li guardo torvo. <> Rhage guardo Tohr, sogghignando. Quando l'altro fratello annui, Hollywood tiro fuori quello che nascondeva dietro il corpo mastodontico. Qhuinn rimase impietrito. <> <>, lo interruppe Rhage. <> <>, disse Tohr. <> <>, bofonchio Rhage. <> <> chiese Lassiter, piombando nella stanza. <> <> Hollywood si volto proprio mentre V entrava dietro l'angelo. <> <> V si accese una delle sue sigarette rollate a mano. <> <>, fece notare Rhage. <> <>, esclamo Trez, sopraggiungendo insieme ad iAm. <> <>, scherzo Rhage. <> <> V controllo l'orologio. <> <>, sentenzio Phury, spalancando la porta insieme a Z. <> <>, annuncio Rehv alle spalle dei gemelli. <> <>, ribadi Phury. <> <> Un pandemonio. Totale. Assoluto. Osservando la scena, con tutti quei vampiri che parlavano uno sopra l'altro, dandosi il cinque e scambiandosi pacche sul sedere, Qhuinn rimase per un attimo senza fiato. Poi abbasso gli occhi sull'anello che gli aveva regalato Blay. Avere una famiglia era... proprio, incredibilmente meraviglioso. <>, disse piano. Tutti si bloccarono di colpo, voltandosi verso di lui e guardandolo, immobili, in perfetto silenzio. Fu Z a prendere la parola, con gli occhi gialli che brillavano. <> Le pacche sulle spalle si sprecarono via via che tutti, uscendo, lo salutavano. Poi Qhuinn rimase da solo con il suo smoking. <>, disse all'abito.
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amore
famiglia
matrimonio
smoking
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J.R. Ward |
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b999ca9
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Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.
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certainty
elizabeth-wein
ellen-mcewen
julie
romance
silence
smoking
stars
the-pearl-thief
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Elizabeth Wein |
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a144562
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she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison. No wonder they gave them out free to the soliders. Lucky Strikes.
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grief
pain
smoking
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Colum McCann |
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7419597
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The smoke from her cigarette passed beneath the nostrils of the brown and white girls, and their space-annihilating concupiscence seemed centered on mentholated smoke along.
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concupiscence
nostrils
smoke
smoking
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |