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  1. Angela Carter _ The Infernal Desire Machines

    {...} he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.
    book-quotereasonsenses

  2. Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth

    I warned you; I warned you I was the Senses Taker," sneered the Senses Taker. "I help people find what they're looking for, hear what they're listening for, run after what they're chasing, and smell what isn't even there. And, furthermore," he cackled, hopping around gleefully on his stubby legs, "I'll steal your sense of purpose, take your sense of duty, destroy your sense of proportion - and, but for one thing, you'd be helpless yet.""What's that?" asked Milo fearfully."As long as you have the sound of laughter," he groaned unhappily, "I cannot take your sense of humor - and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.
    book-quotesense-of-humorsensessense-of-purpose

  3. Kate Atkinson _ Life After Life

    Ah, I know," Bridget said. "For sure, you have the sixth sense." Mrs. Glover, wrestling with the plum pudding, snorted her disapproval. She was of the opinion that five senses were too many, let alone adding on another.
    book-quotesensesesp

  4. Oliver Sacks _ Seeing Voices

    We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
    book-quotecommunitythoughtcommunication

  5. Michael Chabon _ The Final Solution

    The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The smoke of his tobacco was the foulest that she, a girl raised in a house with seven brothers and a widowed father, had every been obliged to inhale. It hung in the room as thick as sheepshearing and made arabesques in the harsh slanting light from the window.
    book-quotesmokesmellsenses

  6. Yann Martel _ Life of Pi

    As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound."
    book-quotehumorsenses

  7. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
    book-quotesenses

  8. Tom Robbins _ Wild Ducks Flying Backward

    Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances?Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen:Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages, we have worn masks of fruit and flowers in order to conceal from ourselves the meaty essence of our humanity. We appreciate the sexual attractant of the rose, the ripeness of the orange, more than we honor our own ripe carnality.Now today we want to perfume our cities, as well; to replace their stinging fumes of disturbed fossils' sleep with the scent of gardens and orchards. Yet, humans are not bees any more than they are blossoms. If we must pull an olfactory hood over our urban environment, let it be of a different nature.I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes.I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets.Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace.I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve.I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain.I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods.And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.
    book-quotehumorsenses

  9. Paul Bowles _ The Spider's House

    Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.
    book-quotetruthimmersionstranger

  10. Dan B. Allender _ To Be Told: Know Your Story,

    Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit-for any season-sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety {whatever that might be}. Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."-Dan B. Allender, PhD"
    book-quotemysteriessenses

  11. Wallace Stegner _ On Teaching and Writing

    By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
    book-quotewritingimaginationsenses

  12. Sten Nadolny _ Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit

    Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree."
    book-quoteseeingrecognitionsenses
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