"Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'"
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"We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink."
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"Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP"
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"I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise."
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"I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases."
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"Harriet Jones: Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll pardon the word, it's something else. What is it? It's more like, um... Rose Tyler: Bad breath. Harriet Jones: That's it! The Doctor: Calcium decay. Now that Narrows it down!.. Calcium phosphate. Organic calcium. Living calcium. Creatures made out of living calcium. What else - what else? Hyphenated surnames. Yes! That narrows it down to one planet! Raxacoricofallapatorius! Mickey Smith: [sarcastically] Oh yeah, great! We can write 'em a letter."
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"Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him."
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"I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate."
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"I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell."
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"The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell."
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"Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it"
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"Christian Deodorant: "Thou Shalt Not Smell""
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"Smells are the fallen angels of the senses."
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"When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy."
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"I've been told I smell good. I don't look like I smell good."
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"What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!"
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"A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer."
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"Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage."
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"the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell."
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"I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me."
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