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quotes by topic Conversation

" Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. "

Children , Love , Pleasure , Men , Conversation

" She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. "

George Bernard Shaw

Power , Art , Speech , Conversation

" It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. "

Conversation

" If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested. "

Want , Conversation , Interesting

" Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. "

Communication , Conversation

" Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I. "

E. L. Konigsburg

Conversation , Long , Conversations

" I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!" "

Conversation , Writing , Said

" It‚Äôs no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,‚Äô she muttered. "

Conversation

" Tamina serves coffee and calvados to the customers (there aren't all that many, the room being always half empty) and then goes back behind the bar. Almost always there is someone sitting on a barstool, trying to talk to her. Everyone likes Tamina. Because she knows how to listen to people.But is she really listening? Or is she merely looking at them so attentively, so silently? I don't know, and it's not very important. What matters is that she doesn't interrupt anyone. You know what happens when two people talk. One of them speaks and the other breaks in: "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." and starts talking about himself until the first one manages to slip back in with his own "It's absolutely the same with me, I..."The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others. The whole secret of Tamina's popularity is that she has no desire to talk about herself. She submits to the forces occupying her ear, never saying: "It's absolutely the same with me, I... "

Conversation

" Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious. "

Charles Bukowski

Poetry , Conversation

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