"I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets."
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"The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world."
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"What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot."
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"Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant."
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"The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall."
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"Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint."
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"I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel."
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"Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?"
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"On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive."
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"I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff."
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"People can smell the bullshit and see through the curtains. People know when something's real and when something isn't, and when some dude really means what he's saying or singing, or when he doesn't."
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"So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books."
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"But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection."
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"I love the smell of estrogen in the morning."
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"Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead."
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"I don't drink hard liquor anymore, but I sometimes order Lagavulin just for the smell. It's so good. It's unbelievable."
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"Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells."
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"I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday."
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"Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break."
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"The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation"
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