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The most important thing in human relationship is conversation. But people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books but they almost never talk. — Paulo Coelho The Zahir

After Margaret moved to Florida they continued to stay in touch in a Christmas card/life-milestone way. — E. L. Konigsburg TheView from...

Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth — Chuck Palahniuk Tell-All

I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I think it's a long way from here. I'm Nicole Ade. Miss Colorado. We have a Colorado where we're from too! Tiara said. She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Kipa aloha. Nicole stared. I speak English. I'm American. Also, did you learn those moves from Barbie's Hawaiian Vacation DVD? Oh my gosh, yes! Do your people have that, too? — Libba Bray Beauty Queens

But here is a confession, which I also happily shared with him at our last meeting, which happened as I was completing this book: I had never thought this deeply about my own craft and what makes a column work until our chance encounter prompted me to do so. Had I not paused to engage him, I never would have taken apart, examined, and then reassembled my own framework for making sense of the world in a period of rapid change. Not — Thomas L. Friedman Thank You for...

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it. — Fulton J. Sheen Life is Worth...

A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, 'What do you want to do today?' you say, 'I want to do painting with Mrs. Peters,' but you don't say, 'I want to have my lunch and I want to go to the toilet and I want to go home after school and I want to play with Toby and I want to have my supper.' — Mark Haddon The Curious...

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think! — J. R. R. Tolkien The Fellowship...

Letter writing is a truly anachronistic genre, a sort of tardy inheritance of the eighteenth century; those who lived at that time believed in the pure truth of the written word. And we? Times have changed; words are lost with ever greater ease; you can see them float on the waters of history; sink, come up again, mixed in by the current with the water hyacinths. — Ricardo Piglia Artificial...

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders. — John Steinbeck The Winter of...

We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it then. — Ayn Rand Anthem

He doesn't talk to me, he behaves as if the act of talking physically pains him and — Gillian Flynn Gone Girl

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken. — Robert Louis Stevenson The Master of...

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language. — Patricia A. McKillip The Book of...

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

What exactly did you find in Atlanta?Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese...

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

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if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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