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> [“Elegy for Smoking" It’s not the drug I miss but all those minutes we used to steal outside the library, under restaurant awnings, out on porches, by the quiet fields. And how kind it used to make us when we’d…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-phillips/elegy-for-smoking-it-s-not-the-drug-i-miss-but-all-those-minutes-we/)

Patrick Phillips

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## More by Patrick Phillips

> [“Elegy for Smoking" It’s not the drug I miss but all those minutes we used to steal outside the library, under restaurant awnings, out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-phillips/elegy-for-smoking-it-s-not-the-drug-i-miss-but-all-those-minutes-we/)

Patrick Phillips

> [“even the silence, if you listened, meant something.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-phillips/even-the-silence-if-you-listened-meant-something/)

Patrick Phillips

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