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• We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

  Willa Cather

  People, Faces, Boxes

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

  Curtis LeMay

  Self, Smoking, Wicked

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• What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Heaven, Tonight

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• When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage ... When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line.

  George Burns

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.

  Schoolboy Q

  Drinking, Forever, Smoking

  Source: www.vibe.com

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• The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Differences, Smoking

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• Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because he makes me see the possibilities and makes me feel like writing. There are certain writers who put you in the mood to write. In the way a whiff of a cigar will bring back memories of a ballgame on a Saturday afternoon, reading Salinger makes me want to get to the typewriter.

  Robert Cormier

  Memories, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Golden, Doe

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 1'

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• There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

  Moliere

  Passion, Smoking, Literature

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• I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Humorous, Night

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• Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

  J. B. Priestley

  Dream, Destiny, Men

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• It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

  Edward Abbey

  Feet, Long, Support

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

  Larry Rivers

  Queens, Night, Tunnels

  Larry Rivers, Carol Brightman (1979). “Drawings and digressions”, Clarkson Potter

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• Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

  John Travolta

  Mother, Dad, Feelings

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• Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

  George Burns

  Sex, Trying, Rope

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• I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

  Ron White

  Cuban Cigars, Decent, Smoke

  Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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• I collect cigars. I love giving 'em away to people that really enjoy 'em, and I could think of no better place than West Point!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Isn't it odd that the guy was politically correct in one particularly weird way. Bill Clinton never lit a cigar.

  Chris Matthews

  Guy, Bills, Way

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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.

  Russell Hoban

  Funny, Humorous, Cigarette Smoke

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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• If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Differences, House

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• If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

  Sacha Guitry

  Genius, Idiot, Birth

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• Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

  Moliere

  Passion, Men, Smoking

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• I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Trying, Noses, Figures

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• "A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Light, Giving

  "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.

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• Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

  Dirk Benedict

  Baby, Men, Hands

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