"The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind."

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Source : Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

#Memories Quotes #Smell Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.”
“Light works most effectively in darkness.”
“It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.”
“I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.”
“Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.”

Source : 1942 Line delivered by Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager.
“Lynching is color line murder.”
“When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.”
“I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.”

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

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