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“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...”
“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...”
“what a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.”
“Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.”
“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.”
“He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal ...”
“...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.”
“Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.”
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“As I got warmed up and felt perfectly at home in talk I heard myself boasting lying exaggerating. Oh not deliberately far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of ta...”
“You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.”
“People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can...”
“When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.”
“That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.”
“John Wesley's conversation is good but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I...”
“She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.”
“While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.”
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to it creates us makes ...”
“A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves that they have taken material which should have a life of its own to disperse it in noises upon ...”
“Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.”
