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“It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.”
“He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.”
“My phone buzzes. Its from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I wont be needing. a) Hi. Im Zuzana. Im actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a s...”
“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.”
“There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.”
“Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.”
“I was kidding. Even I'm not that promiscuous. You guru people have no sense of humor.I'm not a guru people, and I happen to have a very well developed sense of humor. Why else would I still be talk...”
“Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.”
“It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.”
“Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.”
“She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.”
“Who says youll get hurt again?I pouted. Have you met you? Right.”
“It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.”
“It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye”
“The people who ask questions decide the quality of their conversation.”
“The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one's head before having it with the intended party.”
“They were going to have a conversation, he realized. Archie didn't know a lot about women, but he had been married and he knew when a conversation was coming, and he knew when a woman wanted to hav...”
“What I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes. What I think is, you'r...”
“In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?”
“There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.”
