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• I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Beer, Hair, Bottom Of The Barrel

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• Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Hands, Elephants

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• We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

  Helen Fisher

  Flower, Clothes, Tree

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• Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.

  Helen Fisher

  Kissing, Men, Differences

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• Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Levels, Attractive

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• America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

  Helen McCrory

  Country, America, Emotion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Stress, Impact, Sight

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• The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Stars, Thinking, White

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

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• Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Free Jazz, Rock N Roll

  Song: Be-Bop Tango, 1974

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• The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sweet, Blue, Hands

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• Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Boys, Land

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jun 27, 2014

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• Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Idols, Mad, Monsters

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.105, Penguin

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• A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

  Norton Juster

  Gone, Phantom Tollbooth, Wasps

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• The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Yoga, Exercise

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• My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Should, Insects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.304, Penguin

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• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

  Tom Stoppard

  Inspirational, Memories, Eye

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.61, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Library, Carpet, Marble

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Book, Character

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• It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Meaningful, Lying, Writing

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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• The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.

  Lynda Barry

  Song, Hate, Thinking

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• Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

  Penn Jillette

  Inspirational, Real, Technology

  "Thoughts On the Business of Life". "Forbes" Magazine, November 12, 2007.

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• Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

  Barbara Pym

  Drink, Librarian, Alright

  "Less than angels".

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• I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sticks, Fingers, Existence

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