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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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"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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"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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"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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"He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them."
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"What is reading, but silent conversation."
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"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
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"My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way."
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"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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"When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation."
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"Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation."
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"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household."
Food

"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."
World

"I laughed all the way through Love Story."
Love

"Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to."
Dress

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death."
Death

"The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name."
Mother

"Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way."
Learning

"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."
Life

"My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business."
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"Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse."
Mother
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