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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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"When beginning a conversation, ask the other person, "Do you have time to speak right now? If they say no, you can say, "I have some valuable information to share with you. What time would work best for you?"
"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."
"When having lunch or dinner at a long rectangular table, I prefer to take a middle chair so that I can turn to my left or to my right to make meaningful conversation with the people in attendance. When I have been seated at the very end, it can prove to be difficult to speak, hear, and connect with everyone there. Think ahead, and whenever possible, put yourself in the middle of the action!"
"Conversation starters. Icebreakers. Openers. However you choose to label them, that moment when the first words come out of your mouth can make or break the outcome of your entire conversation. Been there, done that, right?"
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
"These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false."
"Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock."
"The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation."
"I called Vee.'How are you doing?' I asked.'Good. How are you?''Good.'Silence.'Okay,' Vee said in a rush, 'I am still totally freaked out. You?''Totally."
"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."
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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."
"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
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