“It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.”
Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“As a young child Audrey Carsons wanted to be writers because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.”
"The Lemon Kid"
Exterminator! A Novel (1971)
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