Quote:
Originally Posted by gmw
Fry quotes from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure, it is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied." And then he goes on to elaborate in his own elegant manner: "[...] a cigarette delivers the keen joy, the hug of gratification, and then - nothing more than the desire to experience it all over again. And so on. No moment of feeling engorged, full, unworthy and sick, nor hangover or mood crash. A cigarette is perfect because, like a highly evolved virus, it attaches itself to the brain of the user such that its only purpose is to induce them to have another. There is a reward for that in the form of pleasure, but the reward is too short-lived to be called satisfaction."
As an ex-smoker of 4 years 21 days and 10 hours (but who's counting), I found that passage spoke to me.  |
Wonderful quote!
Stitchawl
Twelve years, four months, four weeks, one day, 14 hours, 25 minutes and 44 seconds. 136038 cigarettes not smoked, saving $40,811.41. Time used for a better purpose: 1 year, 15 weeks, 3 days, 8 hours, 30 minutes.