870 Quotes About Conversation

  • Author Barbara Pym
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    The conversation did not go very well and I began telling him about the people with their trays in the great cafeteria and suggesting that it would have done us more good to go there to be put in mind of our own mortality.

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  • Author Sarah Orne Jewett
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    It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    Todo ese tiempo, es claro, habían conversado agradablemente, como lo hace la gente educada y bien nacida, sobre el mal genio de la reina, y la gota del primer ministro.

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