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"Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning."
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"What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him!"
"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."
"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."
"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
"There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words."
"Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%."
"When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver."
"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."
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"People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream."
"I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing."
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."
"He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea."
"It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too."
"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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