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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
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Personal Development
"One must steer, not talk."
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Personal Development
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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Personal Development
"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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Personal Development
"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."
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Personal Development
"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
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"Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me."
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"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
Friendship
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
Conversation
"No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me."
Blood
"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."
Writing
"When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely."
God
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."
Music
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
Urbanism
"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."
Art
"Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."
Fame
"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
Travel
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