“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.”
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Vladimir Nabokov193
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes
Hubert Selby Jr. book Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)
“You remind me of a smoked cigarette.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book Flappers and Philosophers
Source: Flappers and Philosophers
“Some part of me was lost in your sleeve
Where you hid your cigarettes”
Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
"Eugene"
Lyrics, Carrie and Lowell (2015)
“[when asked about cigarettes] I don't recommend them… but I smoke them.”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter
seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N33SPjRvgpQ
Eliza Dushku (1980) American actress
Eliza Dushku in Black and White http://www.elizadushkuonline.com/html_articles/2002/06_improper-bostonian.html
“When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't get a handful of mud either.”
Leo Burnett (1891–1971) American advertising executive
As quoted in Readers Digest January 1985
Ambrose (339–397) bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Church
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch
“He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.”
Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer
Source: Lost in Time