"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."

Conversation, Cleverness, Company, Lies

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"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."

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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."

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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad."

Francis Lockier, American Composer

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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

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"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."

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"There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

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"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."

Norton Juster, American Architect

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"The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation."

Walter Elliot, Scottish Politician

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"The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters."

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"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."

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