| I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. |
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- Diane Ackerman |
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| Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. |
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- Diane Ackerman |
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| Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. |
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- Diane Ackerman |
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