"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
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"I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself."
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"Habit is stronger than reason."
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"It is easier to stay out than get out."
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"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."
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"Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl."
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"What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself."
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"As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake."
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"If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go."
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"Yesterday when we were getting high, you were invited. You woulda liked it."
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"I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then."
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"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars."
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"The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco."
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"Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels."
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"Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes."
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"If you can't send money, send tobacco."
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"Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free"
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"I smoke goody, no glaucoma."
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"I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better."
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"Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity."
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