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“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mean Art Reality Loses Space Rooms Know How Filled Intention Smell Stuck Rough Abandoned Volume Caves Arrows Tunnels Mean Words

Author:Susan Sontag

“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.”

Way Littles Long I Can Moments Light Running Lasts Remember Film Rooms Childhood Wall Details Smell Wander Landscape Long Ago Hung Scrap

Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

“Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.”

Ifs Mean Rooms Half Audience Standing Empty Meetings Smell Theatre Atmosphere Restaurants Half Empty Auditoriums

Author:David Ogilvy

“Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.”

Men Home Age Girl Space Rooms Boys Darkness Air Disease Prison Smell Boy And Girl Home Home Small Rooms

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.”

People Giving Light Evil Love Is Rooms Tree Rose Smell Shade Good People Lamps Fragrance Evil People

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Looks Character Happens Certain Ability Rooms Conflict Gun Fairs Machines Smell Inevitable Minors Creeps Entropy Machine Guns My Fair Lady

Author:Adam Rapp

“the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.”

Rooms Spring Smell Remembered Lilac

Book:Vanish in an Instant

Source: Vanish in an Instant

“One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.”

Feels Happens Able Certain Rooms Childhood Music Is Smell Great Things Your Children Capability Time Travel

Author:M. Ward

“We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.”

Children Stills Sometimes Feelings Light Able Night Sound Memories Rooms Growing Events Sight Forgotten Smell Surface Monsters Nevertheless

Author:Fred Rogers

“When I was pregnant, I couldn't wear fragrance. I couldn't smell anything. I couldn't smell flowers, I was very sensitive to everything. I could smell orange juice from across the room and I remember thinking, 'I will throw up.'”

Thinking Remember Rooms Flower Smell Sensitive Pregnant Orange Fragrance Juice Were Pregnant Orange Juice

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.”

Ifs Men Feels Firsts Children Sometimes Voice Memories Rooms Color Return First Time Track Details Smell Tone Visuals Auditory

Author:Martha Manning