"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."

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"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."

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"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day."

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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

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"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."

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"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

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"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."

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"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."

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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."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

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"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."

Hedda Hopper, American Actress

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