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0b5ec08
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"Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. "What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" "All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain. ... "Good morning!" he said at last. "We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water." By this he meant that the conversation was at an end. "What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off."
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meaning
good-morning
gandalf
conversation
languange
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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de88a61
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"Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me. "Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window."
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westford
conversation
ego
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Simone Elkeles |
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a4814f6
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I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
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conversation
smiling
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Jodi Picoult |
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1e946a5
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"Just so you know, I'm goin' to enlist." "I'm proud of you. But why?" I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. "I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep."
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dick-westford
conversation
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Simone Elkeles |
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ff8b76f
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"That's not the only reason I'm stayin', chica. I can't leave you any more than I could walk out that door right now while my leg is busted up. I was just thinkin' . . . should we tell your parents now or later?" "Tell them what?" I ask, eyes wide. He kisses me softly, then says proudly, "That we're in a serious, monogamous, committed relationship." "We are?" "Si. And when I get out of here, I'm gonna fix the door to your car."
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kiara-westford
conversation
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Simone Elkeles |
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61591ab
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she wasn't very interesting but few people are.
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poem
poetry
people
women
humanity
family
death
life
love
bukowski
interesting
conversation
society
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Charles Bukowski |
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80f677b
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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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friendship
conversation
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Ann Patchett |
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6311925
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The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways-and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.
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fear
change
love
truth
day
behavior
plans
conversation
waiting
tension
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Paulo Coelho |
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ef2e114
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A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
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complaining
conversation
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Lisa Kleypas |
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e4c5ed9
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Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.
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youth
interaction
conversation
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Julian Barnes |
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1c41f65
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The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.
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middle
compromise
diversity
conversation
left
right
creativity
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Terry Tempest Williams |
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44938b4
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Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.
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stupidity
stupid-people
rumours
slander
conversation
talking
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Anne Brontë |
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cf37e08
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"You're not the only one in this relationship who loves a challenge," he says. "And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle . . . and without magnets glued to them."
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funny
humor
kiara-westford
conversation
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Simone Elkeles |
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e051610
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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
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silence
friendship
conversation
enjoyment
faculty
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Anne Brontë |
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942c38d
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It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.
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social-commentary
conversation
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Haruki Murakami |
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d74be49
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"[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. "Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we're out of purgatory for the weekend." "Maybe later," I murmur, still distracted by the day's previous events. "So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested." "Huh?" I say." --
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humor
jules
delilah-mcphee
paying-attention
conversation
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Jodi Picoult |
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7547213
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CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.
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conversation
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Terry Tempest Williams |
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17bc76e
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The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge. 'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.' 'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.
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funny
family
love
fridge
brother
lesbian
dinner
problems
conversation
random
sexuality
father
unrequited-love
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
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478559c
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He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.
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relationships
conversation
status-quo
listening
politeness
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Peter S. Beagle |
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0ff8e4d
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In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point.
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mental-activity
partner
conversation
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Samuel Beckett |
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10593e8
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"He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them."
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marriage
conversation
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Michael Chabon |
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afe6e57
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"Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone," her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. "Where've you been, what've you been up to?" "Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend, he was a Personification of the Sydney Tar Ponds, sort of my imaginary friend?" Mandy asked. "No, what in the name of god are you on about?" her mom sighed in exasperation. "Remember? Only I could see him, but he was real and he was my best friend when I was eighteen?" Mandy insisted. "No, I don't remember Alecto Sydney Steele at all," said her mom all too quickly."
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family
friendship
imaginary-companion
imaginary-playmate
invisible-friend
pretend-friend
sydney-tar-ponds
imaginary-friend
cape-breton
nova-scotia
call
telephone
dysfunctional-families
eighteen
pretend
canada
conversation
friend
talk
girl
mom
mother
invisible
remember
phone
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Rebecca McNutt |
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c16ec8c
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Her words depressed him. They were like spilt sugar; however much you swept it up some grains would keep grinding under your feet.
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sugar
conversation
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Muriel Spark |
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0eaec6c
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There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naive at times, she wasn't stupid.
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friendship
personification
ordinary
conversation
friend
talk
insanity
insane
mental-illness
psychology
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Rebecca McNutt |
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d6ab5c9
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"Curiosity. It was Oliver Sacks who first made me reflect on curiosity as a form of compassion. An ingenious and creative neurologist now well-known for his "clinical tales," he begins his work as diagnostician and healer with the implicit question 'What is it like to be you?"
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empathy
marilyn-chandler-mcentyre
healing
conversation
curiosity
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Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |