{"quotes":[{"text":"She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["cancer","cigarette","cigarettes","death","inevitable","smoke","smoking"],"id":8521,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearth’s awful behavior,” Mandy suggested with optimism.“The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasn’t murdered us both yet,” said Alecto, lighting another cigarette, his hands shaking erratically. He looked exhausted and terrified, his gray eyes soulless.“Do you know what Mearth likes, Alecto?” Mandy questioned.“Vegetables, she likes celery a lot, and lettuce,” Alecto responded in a quiet monotone. “I don’t know what else she likes. I’ve never asked her.”“Well, she has to like something… doesn’t everyone?”“Not her, Mandy Valems.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["celery","christmas","cigarette","comedy","gift","going-green","hoiday","humor","lettuce","miracle","mother-earth","murder","present","vegetables"],"id":11380,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.).","author":"Charles de Leusse","tags":["bouche","cigarette","embrasser","femme","flame","flamme","kiss","mouth","woman"],"id":25546,"author_id":"Charles+de+Leusse"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn’t get much easier.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["alone","cigarette","cigarettes","midnight","poetic","poetry","smoke","smoking","writers"],"id":58671,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"I said to my friend, 'Why do you smoke (cigarettes)?'He replied, 'Because I like to put myself on the line for the welfare and safety of others.'I astonishingly said, 'Sorry, I didn't get your point.'He replied, 'I want a cigarette-free world. Therefore, I am trying my best to end all the cigarettes from the world.","author":"Saad Salman","tags":["cigarette","cigarette-addiction","cigarettes-smoking","funny","funny-and-random","humor","humorous","saad","salman","smoker","smokers","smoking"],"id":95336,"author_id":"Saad+Salman"},{"text":"You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["book","cigarette","cigarettes","coffee","happiness","happy","love","relationships","simplicity","smoking-morning","together","waking-up"],"id":144726,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.For as there are billionsof different stars thatmake up the skyso, too, are there billions of different humans thatmake up the Earth.Some shine brighter but all are made ofthe same cosmic dust.O the joy of beingin life with all these people!I speak of differencesbecause they are there.Like the different organsthat make up our bodies.Earth, itself, is one large body.Listen to how it howlswhen one human isin misery.When one kills another, the Earth feels the pang in itschest. When one orgasms, the Earth craves a cigarette.Look carefully,these animals are beauty spots that make the Earth’s face lovelier and more loveable.These oceans are the Earth’s limpid eyes. These trees, its hair.This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.I will no longer speak of differences, for the similaritiesare larger. Look even closer. There may bedistances between our limbs butthere are no spaces betweenour hearts. We long to be one.We long to be in nature andto run wild with its wildlife.Let us celebrate life and living, for it is sacrilegious to be ungrateful.Let us play and be playful, for it is sacrilegiousto be serious.Let us celebrate imperfectionsand make existenceproud of us, for tomorrow isdeath, and this is an ode to life. The anthem of the world.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["anguish","animals","anthem","appreciate","beautiful","beauty","beloved","billion","bodies","body","celebrate","celebration-poems","chest","cigarette","city","closer","cosmic","country","death","differences","distance","dust","earth","existence","eyes","grateful","hair","harmony","howl","humanity","humans","imperfections","joy","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kill","kojouri","life","life-poems","limbs","listen","live","living","look","love","loveable","lovelier","lover","misery","nation","nature","now","oceans","ode","one-world","oneness","organs","orgasm","pang","peace","peacefulness","people","person","play","playful","present","proud","sacrilege","sacrilegious","seas","serious","seriousness","shine","similarities","sky","space","spiritual","spirituality","spot","stars","suffer","suffering","today","togetherness","tomorrow","trees","unappreciative","ungrateful","union","united","unity","wild","wildlife","world"],"id":147072,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus, it would get richer and deeper each year. You kept learning more, getting wiser, having more insight, going further into the truth” – she hesitated.Port laughed abruptly. – “And now you know it’s not like that. Right? It’s more like smoking a cigarette. The first few puffs it tasted wonderful, and you don’t even think of its ever being used up. Then you begin taking it for granted. Suddenly you realize it’s nearly burned down to the end. And then’s when you’re conscious of the bitter taste.","author":"Paul Bowles","tags":["cigarette","life","life-and-death"],"id":166459,"author_id":"Paul+Bowles"},{"text":"I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["ash","ashes","burn","cigarette","cigarette-stubs","crowds","crushed","cues","different-people","fire","hints","judgement","life","life-lessons","non-verbal-communication","observe","observing","people","people-relations","people-skills","perception","psychology","qualities","smoke","smoking","way","world"],"id":175935,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}