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"Speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks."
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"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."
"What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone."
"Spoken words have power beyond measure."
"It's hard to communicate anything exactly and that's why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."
"Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception."
"Where our own mind doesn't listen to us, how can other's minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all."
"Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?"
"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."
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"And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading."
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"Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit."
"I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define."
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"The sun was up, the room already too warm. Light filtered in through the net curtains, hanging suspended in the air, sediment in a pond. My head felt like a sack of pulp. Still in my nightgown, damp from some fright I'd pushed aside like foliage, I pulled myself up and out of my tangled bed, then forced myself through the usual dawn rituals - the ceremonies we perform to make ourselves look sane and acceptable to other people. The hair must be smoothed down after whatever apparitions have made it stand on end during the night, the expression of staring disbelief washed from the eyes. The teeth brushed, such as they are. God knows what bones I'd been gnawing in my sleep."
"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."
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