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"But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked."
"I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think."
"My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather."
"A very ancient and fish-like smell."
"Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have."
"I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me."
"At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost."
"My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects."
"There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel."
"A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt."
"It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."
"A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic."
"In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed."
"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
"Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages."
"Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders."
"What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold some sort of mystical power that overrides our brains and makes us do and say things that would normally be inconceivable."
"Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt."
"Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes."
"Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt."
