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That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.

That’s what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.
– Ruth Reichl

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  4. There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos. – Scott Douglas
  5. Don’t you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan. – Ruth Reichl
  6. Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Anne Herbert
  7. I decided that it wasn’t pretty that I felt, but confident. – Ruth Reichl
  8. Anyone who thinks they’re too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner – Ruth Reichl
  9. …it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source. – Ruth Reichl
  10. A great meal is an experience that nourishes more than your body. – Ruth Reichl
  11. When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe! – Julieanne OConnor
  12. The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear. – Camilla Gibb
  13. Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it’s the smell of schizophrenia. – Thomas Harris
  14. Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear. – Indu Muralidharan
  15. She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar. – Stephen King
  16. Everyone knows a Wixen when we smell one. You smell the prettiest, a mixture of strawberries, sex and deceit. Dior should bottle it. – Beverley Price
  17. I can smell your blood now. I can smell it in every room of the house. – Jolie du Pre
  18. He can smell his cologne, his shampoo, and something else — he can smell the boy’s own scent, something bittersweet. – Lidia Roldn
  19. Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home. – John Berger
  20. Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world. – Ian Fleming
  21. Remy tilted his head to sniff the air. -œI love that smell.- He turned his head to look over his shoulder. -œThe smell of fear. – Isaiyan Morrison
  22. Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. – Ray Bradbury
  23. Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  24. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  25. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  26. Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it. – Ruth Padel
  27. The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. – John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
  28. Imagine if you were performing at your full potential, the lives you would change – including yours. Just imagine… – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
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  30. It’s always better if they see. Then they don’t imagine things. So I didn’t imagine, I remembered. – Diana Gabaldon
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  32. A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming. – Munia Khan
  33. The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. – Haruki Murakami
  34. I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave. – VT Davy
  35. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
  36. Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all – John Green
  37. Imagine a man without lungs. Imagine earth without Amazon rainforest. – Vinita Kinra
  38. Imagine Himalayas without glaciers. Imagine 3 nuclear powers without water. – Vinita Kinra
  39. I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again. – Anna Godbersen
  40. Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse. – Amy Reed

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