870 Quotes About Conversation



  • Author Anne Fadiman
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    When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner, the convergence of his life as a writer and his life as an oenophile, the conviviality that grew as the night continued and everyone had a little too much to drink but not enough to impair the quality of the conversation, some of which, I feel sure, was about the wines themselves.

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  • Author J.D. Jordan
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    And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths could’ve never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries out in the night and some long ago tangling of limbs. And about them betrayals done time and time again—by both of us—what led to me pointing the Green Man’s rifle at the man what once loved me under the Green Man’s stars.

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  • Author Robi Aulia Abdi
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    There are at least two reactions when we talk to people and they don't understand what we're talking about, they will think that we are smart enough because the language that we used are so scientific, or they will think that we are foolish because they don't have much time to try to understand it.

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