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"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him!"
"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."
"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."
"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
"Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%."
"When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver."
"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."
"You can save hundred words with just one look!"
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"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."
"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."
"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."
"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."
"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."
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