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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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"It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then."
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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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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"14 Awesome Conversation Starters - 1. What do you do for fun? Hobbies, recreation. 2. What are your super powers? Gifts, talents, strengths. 3. Good morning! It's great to see you! 4. What is your story? Tell me about yourself. 5. What brought you to __________? 6. Do you have anything special happening in your life (or your business)? 7. What's the best thing that's happened this week? 8. Are you living your life purpose or still searching for it? 9. What gives you passion and makes you happy to be alive? 10. Do you have any pets? 11. How do you know the host? 12. When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? 13. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? 14. What's next on your bucket list?"
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"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."
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"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."
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"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."
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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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"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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"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
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"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
Disaster
"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
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
Destruction
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
Conversation
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
People
"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."
Will
"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
"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
Man
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
Science
"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
People
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