“A cigarette only takes a certain amount of time to smoke and though this takes time it seems to take less and less with each one and you can only smoke so many, there comes a time when you have to stop, when you just cant light the next one... at least not for a while.”

—  Hubert Selby Jr., book Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)

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