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"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"Don't let them tell us stories."
"Listening is more important than solutioning."
"If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear."
"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."
"She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better."
"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."
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"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."
"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."
"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."
"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
"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."
"I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell."
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