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"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."
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"Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them."
"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."
"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."
"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."
"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
"If you need only 10 minutes to speak about a topic that requires 60 minutes, then you are a good speaker. If you need 60 minutes to speak about a topic which requires only 10 minutes, then you are a Romanian preacher."
"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."
"Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back."
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"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."
"We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge."
"What one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
"She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything."
"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty."
"Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited."
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