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"If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"

"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."

"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."

"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."

"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."

"Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together."

"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."

"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."

"Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session, you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer."

"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."
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"Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts."

"In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed."

"What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down."

"People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."

"HELP!I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-..It's empty.Viola's breathing heavy in my arms .And Haven is empty.I reach the middle of the square.I don't see nor hear a soul.I spin around again."HELP! I cry.But there's no one.Haven's completely empty.There ain't hope here after all."

"And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say."
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