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"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."
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"I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"One must steer, not talk."
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"A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses."
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"As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge."
Knowledge
"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory."
Heart
"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."
Religion
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry
"I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity."
People
"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism."
Cultural
"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."
Experience
"Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature."
Nature
"It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject."
Will
"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."
Discovery
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