To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work. Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960)

Simt o dorinta de a scrie...insa problema ar fi urmatoarea: ca atunci cand simt nevoia de a fuma dar nu am tigari,asa si acum...simt nevoia sa scriu fara sa am la indemana cuvintele potrivite.
Probabil ca tot vocabularul meu "ales ,grandilocvent si rafinat"este consacrat examenelor din sesiune,ca doar deh! 1 luna am si eu la dispozitie ,ca sa impresionez pe cine trebuie...

Schimband subiectul,din intamplare,zilele astea ,mi-a atras atentia un site care continea o serie de citate despre fumat.Nu,nu au avut nici un efect asupra mea: nu am mustra constiinta ca fumez,nu intentionez sa ma las ;ba chiar dupa ce am citit unele citate mi-am dat seama ca intr-adevar ,fumatul este unul din cele mai elegante ,tacticoase si chiar candide obiceiuri.
Iata o serie din citatele care mi-au ajuns la inima:

• After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings. ~ Brad Shaw
• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other." ~ Horace Greely

• 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

• Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT." ~ Dave Barry

• Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar. ~ Mark Twain

• Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

• If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it. ~ George Burns

• I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

• MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you. ~ Victoria Coren, London Evening Standard, 18 November, 2002
  

• People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me! ~ Wendy Liebman

• Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Carrie: Smoking is the only thing that keeps me balanced."

~Sex and the City (American TV series. Starring Sarah Jessica Par

• Sublime tobacco!

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe,
When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;
Like other charmers, wooding the caress
More dazzlingly when daring in full dress.
Yet thy true lovers more admire, by far,
Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar!
...from The Island, Canto II, by Lord Byron

• The cigarette is a portable therapist. ~ The Quote Garden

• The end of a good smoke is a little saddening. In some regard, it's a bit like losing a best friend who had time to sit and listen. ~ ZenWarrior

• Watching the smoke dance out of a cigarette is like watching a girl dance out of her dress. ~ D.H. Mondfleur