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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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Personal Development
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."
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"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns."
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"I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."
God
"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."
Society
"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."
Society
"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."
Life
"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."
Consequence
"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride."
Society
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
Society
"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
Philosophy
"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
Desire
"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
Fact
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