"Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. Itâ€™s not the tobacco weâ€™re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning."

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Source : "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

Tom Robbins

#Home Quotes #Volcanoes Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .”
“People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed”

Source : Martina Cole (2008). “Close”, p.36, Hachette UK
“The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.”

Source : "Music View; When Inspired Awfulness Becomes Interesting" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1986.
“Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.”
“It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.”
“There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.”
“I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.”
“Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.”

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