870 Quotes About Conversation
- Author Sebastian Barry
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I wanted to listen to him, but I did not want to answer now. That strange responsibility we feel towards others when they speak, to offer them the solace of any answer. Poor humans! And anyway he had not asked a question. He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.
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- Author Deyth Banger
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When you go to a place and start a conversation... remember... you are yet to bring... value... you won't lose any value within this game.
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- Author Gwenda Bond
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He listens when I talk.
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- Author Anne Lamott
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I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.'Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
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- Author Diana Vreeland
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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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- Author Debora van der Velde
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Madam: Are you lucky, Debora?Debora: What do you mean?Madam: Well, you don't look that happy today...Debora: Is it that clear?
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- Author Sam Harris
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As human being, we live in a perpetual conversation between conversation and violence; what apart from fundamental willingness to be reasonable, can guarantee that we will keep talking to one another?
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- Author Amit Kalantri
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Smile makes women smarter, humour makes men handsome.
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- Author Bryan Caplan
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In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why people with conventional interests seem more socially intelligent. Even if they don't check whether their audience cares, it probably does.
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