A cigarette only takes a certain amount of time to smoke an… - Hubert Selby Jr.

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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.

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Hubert "Cubby" Selby, Jr. (23 July 1928 – 26 April 2004) was a 20th century American writer.

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