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"It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval."
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"Listening is more important than solutioning."

"What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?"

"Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality."

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."

"Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence."

"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"

"Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend."

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

"Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower."

"The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her."
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"He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?"

"Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men."

"Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked."

"A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge. If you knew how little you had to revenge."

"Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space."

"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
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