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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
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"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!"
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"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?"
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"Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay."
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"The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you."
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"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."
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"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
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"During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job."
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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
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"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
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"No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad."
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
Art
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
Knowledge
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
Conversation
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
Communication
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
Comfort
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
Soul
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
Destruction
"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
Man
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
Love
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