"Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Smoking Quotes

“I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.”

Source : "Vanity flair". Interview with Janine Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2007.
“No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.”
“I don't think fascism is dying for.”
“I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.”
“No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”
“A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.”

Source : Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.34, Macmillan
“The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!”

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