"Childhood smells of perfume and brownies." — David Leavitt

"Childhood smells of perfume and brownies."

— David Leavitt

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11 Quotes by David Leavitt

David Leavitt has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at…
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that…
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands.…
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I…
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as…
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what…
I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling…

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More Brownies Quotes

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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform. — Sandra Bullock
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing… — Eric Clapton
I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine… — Groucho Marx
I was a soccer cheerleader. It doesn't get nerdier than that. I was fired from the soccer cheerleading squad after… — Kathy Griffin
There go the goddamn brownies! — Joe Dante
I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins. — Parker Posey
I'm the king of brownie sundaes! — Matt Dallas
Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw. — Carol Alt
Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine? — Jami Attenberg
I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost… — Charlaine Harris
I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy. — Barney Frank

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