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Bill Watterson _ It's a Magical World
When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!Conversations aren't contests!Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.
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Kate DiCamillo _ Flora & Ulysses: The
She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!" thought Flora. "
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James S.A. Corey _ Abaddon's Gate
Tell me everything it explains," he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene.
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Leo Tolstoy _ A Confession
At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of us published and wrote in an effort to teach others, all the while disclaiming and abusing one another. Without taking note of the fact that we knew nothing, that we did not know the answer to the simplest question of life, the question of what is right and what is wrong, we all went on talking without listening to one another.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Gentle Spirit
I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words
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L.M. Montgomery _ Among the Shadows: Tales from
She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?
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Andrew Solomon _ The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Last Song
That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.
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E.M. Forster _ Maurice
Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
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Neal Stephenson _ Cryptonomicon
Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge – how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip – from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man's face as he listens to himself speak.
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Neal Stephenson _ Cryptonomicon
Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge – how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip – from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man's face as he listens to himself speak.
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V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic
God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written herscript, too.And a sorry one it was.
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