1. he had a bad case of the blues
1. "It flourished on the air softly in vapors of cobalt light, whispering and sighing."
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Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
2. "Going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for dinner."
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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
3. "If anyone had appeared in just a pair of boxer shorts or swimming trunks, the womenfolk would have had "an attack of the vapors" and the menfolk would have exploded in a rage at the indecency of it. What exactly "an attack of the vapors" was is unclear, because there is no such thing as womenfolk anymore, and there is certainly no such thing as an attack of the vapors."
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Philip Ardagh, Awful End
4. "What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter."
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Jack Vance, The Green Pearl
5. "The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper."
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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
6. "Despite your best efforts and intentions, there’s a limited reservoir to fellowship before you begin to rely solely on the vapors of nostalgia."
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Quote by Don Lee
7. "what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die."
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Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
8. "What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors."
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Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays
9. "The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness."
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Gary Soto, Buried Onions
10. "Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world."
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra