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"Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition."
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"Listening is more important than solutioning."

"What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?"

"Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality."

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."

"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."

"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"

"Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend."

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

"Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower."

"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her."
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"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred."

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."

"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."

"It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval."

"Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together."

"New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might reach the age of a hundred and feel that his life had been a very brief one."
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