'Smoking the Memory', on giving up smoking
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“[After Hale's cremation] She came out of the crematorium, and there from the twin towers above her head fumed the very last of Fred, a thin stream of grey smoke from the ovens. Fred dropped indistinguishable grey ash on the pink blossoms: he became part of the smoke nuisance over London, and Ida wept.”
Brighton Rock (1938)
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English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991Related quotes

“A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.”
Source: The Light That Failed [Illustrated]
A Tragedy, reported by several critics to be the worst poem published in the English language. http://www.reedleycollege.edu/academic/Departments/CompLitComm/sbowie/Tragedy.htm.

Source: Crossways (1889), The Song Of The Happy Shepherd, l. 1–5.

“I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.”
Letter to his wife (1967) as quoted in L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? (1989) by Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr (Ronald DeWolfe).

Article in Nature, 1931, vol 128, page 704