"A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity."

-- George Gissing

#Cigar Quotes #Hours Quotes #Vacuity Quotes

“A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product”
“The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.”
“I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?”
“As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.”
“I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.”
“Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.”
“I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the nineteenth century comes close - so exclusively produced by and closely identified with a tiny but powerful ruling elite, the upper-caste, Anglophone upper middle class, and dependent for so long on book buyers and readers elsewhere.”
“Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.”

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