"we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Morning Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Cigarette Quotes

“No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.”
“The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.”
“We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freakâ€™s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.”

Source : Dana Spiotta (2006). “Eat the Document: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.”
“It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.”

Source : Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.44, Laurel Leaf
“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
“Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.36
“Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 10, 2011

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