To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw — to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we… — Quentin Crisp
To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw — to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer — if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions — we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.
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