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“With some people there is easy conversation and not enough time in one meal to get out everything you want to tell her--all the things you didn't know you'd been holding in until you're suddenly co...”
“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”
“You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no time to even talk to me.'Yeah... Has Keaty told you not to eat the Stew?''Richard!'I fr...”
“Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.”
“I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation.”
“Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentenc...”
“That which is worth telling is not worth having.”
“one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of ...”
“You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.”
“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
“what a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.”
“I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.”
“Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.”
“The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creat...”
“But before she tells you anything." I glared at him suspiciously."your seed..."Tsaeb winced."What the hell are you talking about?""your...well, your seed. You know, you have to knock her up.”
“[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.”
“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).”
“He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letterthe impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal s...”
“...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.”
“The quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization.”
