Phlegm Quotes (5 quotes)

“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Some peopleâ€™s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“I settle for a radio station thatâ€™s currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice that, if he coughed, you could build a road with the contents of his phlegm.”
― Mark Capell, Cafe Insomniac

tags: music, phlegm, tom-waits

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“The stale air, the incessant, inane clatter of the billiard balls, the perpetual hacking cough of a half-blind journalist opposite me, the spindle-shanked infantry officer, alternately picking his nose or combing his moustache with nicotine-stained fingers in front of a small pocket-mirror, the seething clump of vile, sweaty, gabbling Italians round the card table in the corner, now rapping their knuckles and squawking as they played their trumps, now hawking up a lump of phlegm and spewing it onto the floor: all that was bad enough, but to see it reflected two, three times over in the mirrors on the walls! It slowly sucked the blood out of my veins.”
― Gustav Meyrink, The Golem

tags: coffee-house, mirrors, phlegm

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“Mr. Geard was one of those men whose physical phlegm is so thick and deep that it requires a series of material shocks to rouse the full awareness in them of the taste and tang of life.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

tags: mr-geard, phlegm

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