"Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?"

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Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.68, A&C Black

Louis Sachar

#Smell Quotes #Taught Quotes #Five Senses Quotes

“Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.”
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.”
“DoveWing (talking to LoinBlaze): You got somthing wrong, what you said to ToadStep. You are the hero.”
“I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”
“If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.”
“Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.”
“We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.”

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