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"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
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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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"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
Conversation
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
Hate
"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."
Power
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
May
"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
Life
"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."
Character
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
Friendship
"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
Love
"We must take our friends as they are."
Friendship
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Argument
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