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"Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated."
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"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."
"A : I know what you're going to say, B.B : Yes, I've dreamed about this chat, A."
"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."
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."
"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
"I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me."
"I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger."
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"Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead."
"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."
"It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with a particular intensity that makes the most mundane objects in the landscape glow with an unusual radiance, so that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time."
"Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being."
"I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations."
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