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“It is not a good idea to spray finest brandy across the room, especially when your lighted cigar is in the way.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I have gone back to work; I try to intoxicate myself with ink, the way others intoxicate themselves with brandy, so as to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“here in the drawing room, each lady quietly relaxed and became more real, expanding into the space left by the men. Without visibly changing,… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get all the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.” — Ole Gunnar Håland Copy Share Image
“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A pall in the hall of cigarette smoke, lager, sweat, hairspray, Old Spice, Evening in Paris, Brut – all the good ones.” — Andrew Matheson Copy Share Image
“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.” — Sebastian Saviano Copy Share Image
“Children, from what I had seen, were too often the fruit of men’s evil to women. And too often, instead of hating the men… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“It is as if she is punishing everyone who has ever done her wrong through her punishment of me.” — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“But a son—a son must make something of his mother if he is to make something of himself.” — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“Gossip is just like a bee—it comes and it goes and it stops at every pretty flower, but it does no harm unless you… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“Seems to me that the important thing about a lie is not the content, but the way it is told, the spirit of it.… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“I have too open a nature, am too trusting, too willing to see the good in others. I would go so far as to… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“saw flirtation where there was perhaps only surprise. I saw desire where there was perhaps only deference. I saw seduction where there was only… — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
