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Benjamin Alire Saenz

"Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something."

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"Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something."

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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."

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"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse before a truth of the same order can take shape in them."

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"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."

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"Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand."

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"The unsaid rules every conversation."

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"The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it."

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"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

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"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."

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"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."

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"Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you. 'Okay, I said. 'It's okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you? 'Yeah, that would be okay, he said."
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"I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was."
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"Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely."
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