dialogue

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d8578b1	"They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody."	cynical dialogue paranoid	Iain M. Banks
ead0b2e	We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others--our parents, for instance--and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.	dialogue life parents self self-identity	Charles Taylor
c56c09c	[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.	dialogue writing	P.G. Wodehouse
4fc67d2	The Lord of Rags and Tatters.	dialogue fantasy young-adult	Megan Whalen Turner
8dd27c8	Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.	culture dialogue psychology relationships sociology	Peter Kreeft
399aa36	"What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God."	child dialogue god prayer tree wish	Mitch Albom
324b71e	"I feel I'm at the end of something -- everything is going to be different -- and terrible." "That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave." "There is one that will drown me."	dialogue giving-up iris-murdoch metaphor resilience the-end the-green-knight	Iris Murdoch
b9a97cb	"Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell." "Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it!" "I can't. I'm hell, myself."	depressed dialogue hell iris-murdoch release suffering suicidal the-sea-the-sea trapped	Iris Murdoch
3940b17	Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.	books dialogue dialogues-between-books libraries library parchment speaking	Umberto Eco
cd2cfac	Do you know what two centimeters is? Yeah. It's a measurement. It's about three quarters of an inch. All right. That's the distance that round missed your liver by. Is that what the doctor told you? Yes. You know what the liver does? No. It keeps you alive. Do you know who the man is who shot you? Maybe he didnt shoot me. Maybe it was one of the Mexicans. Do you know who the man is? No. Am I supposed to? Becase he's not somebody you really want to know. The people he meets tend to have very short futures. Nonexistent, in fact. Well good for him.	dark-humour dialogue	Cormac McCarthy
84fa21d	"We're leaving," I told her one July afternoon. "We? You and I? Where are we going, young Master Paul? Do you have your belongings tied up in a red-spotted handkerchief on a stick?" --	dialogue humor julian-barnes teasing the-only-story	Julian Barnes
08cb618	He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, and eat food. He wanted to turn away, not deal with the face, have the waitress bring them two tin cans and some string so they could just converse, in a faceless dialogue.	conversations dialogue introvert like-life lorrie-moore restaurant tin-can waitress	Lorrie Moore
7356b05	"It's not so easy." "What isn't?" "To establish relationships, you can't just elect people, it can't be done by thinking and willing."	dialogue iris-murdoch relationships the-sea-the-sea	Iris Murdoch
fc6f639	"I said, "Your brother is in bed with my wife." I added, "I just took them up some wine in bed."	dialogue humor iris-murdoch witty	Iris Murdoch
4d38cb7	I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.	dialogue dislike humor iris-murdoch scoundrel the-black-prince	Iris Murdoch
2061f9a	He said, 'Forgive me for being a liar and a fool and an utterly worthless man.' Louise replied, 'I love you.' He took her in his arms for a moment and they held each other with closed eyes.	confession declaration-of-love dialogue embrace iris-murdoch tender the-green-knight unconditional-love	Iris Murdoch
f246706	Well,' Frederick had said, 'I will see what can be arranged, Archie. But I will not have the girl frightened or compromised.' 'You sound like a grandfather who has raised fifteen daughters and is now starting on his granddaughters, Freddie,' Lord Archibald had said. 'It is most disconcerting.	dialogue humor mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter	Mary Balogh
923291b	I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.	dialogue fashion humor mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter	Mary Balogh
3bcc409	I wish it be understood that she will always be first in my life, before any other member of my family or hers and before all my other duties. I will not tolerate criticism of that fact even from you. I will hear none from you ever again.	dialogue georgian heartless historical-romance mary-balogh romance romantic	Mary Balogh
d6c5638	His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.	cynicism dancing-with-clara dialogue humor marriage mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter	Mary Balogh

"They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody."

Iain M. Banks

ead0b2e

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others--our parents, for instance--and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.

dialogue life parents self self-identity

Charles Taylor

c56c09c

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

dialogue writing

P.G. Wodehouse

4fc67d2

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

dialogue fantasy young-adult

Megan Whalen Turner

8dd27c8

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.

culture dialogue psychology relationships sociology

Peter Kreeft

399aa36

"What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God."

child dialogue god prayer tree wish

Mitch Albom

324b71e

"I feel I'm at the end of something -- everything is going to be different -- and terrible." "That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave." "There is one that will drown me."

dialogue giving-up iris-murdoch metaphor resilience the-end the-green-knight

Iris Murdoch

b9a97cb

"Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell." "Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it!" "I can't. I'm hell, myself."

depressed dialogue hell iris-murdoch release suffering suicidal the-sea-the-sea trapped

Iris Murdoch

3940b17

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries -old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

books dialogue dialogues-between-books libraries library parchment speaking

Umberto Eco

cd2cfac

Do you know what two centimeters is? Yeah. It's a measurement. It's about three quarters of an inch. All right. That's the distance that round missed your liver by. Is that what the doctor told you? Yes. You know what the liver does? No. It keeps you alive. Do you know who the man is who shot you? Maybe he didnt shoot me. Maybe it was one of the Mexicans. Do you know who the man is? No. Am I supposed to? Becase he's not somebody you really want to know. The people he meets tend to have very short futures. Nonexistent, in fact. Well good for him.

dark-humour dialogue

Cormac McCarthy

84fa21d

"We're leaving," I told her one July afternoon. "We? You and I? Where are we going, young Master Paul? Do you have your belongings tied up in a red-spotted handkerchief on a stick?" --

dialogue humor julian-barnes teasing the-only-story

Julian Barnes

08cb618

He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, and eat food. He wanted to turn away, not deal with the face, have the waitress bring them two tin cans and some string so they could just converse, in a faceless dialogue.

conversations dialogue introvert like-life lorrie-moore restaurant tin-can waitress

Lorrie Moore

7356b05

"It's not so easy." "What isn't?" "To establish relationships, you can't just elect people, it can't be done by thinking and willing."

dialogue iris-murdoch relationships the-sea-the-sea

Iris Murdoch

fc6f639

"I said, "Your brother is in bed with my wife." I added, "I just took them up some wine in bed."

dialogue humor iris-murdoch witty

Iris Murdoch

4d38cb7

I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.

dialogue dislike humor iris-murdoch scoundrel the-black-prince

Iris Murdoch

2061f9a

He said, 'Forgive me for being a liar and a fool and an utterly worthless man.' Louise replied, 'I love you.' He took her in his arms for a moment and they held each other with closed eyes.

confession declaration-of-love dialogue embrace iris-murdoch tender the-green-knight unconditional-love

Iris Murdoch

f246706

Well,' Frederick had said, 'I will see what can be arranged, Archie. But I will not have the girl frightened or compromised.' 'You sound like a grandfather who has raised fifteen daughters and is now starting on his granddaughters, Freddie,' Lord Archibald had said. 'It is most disconcerting.

dialogue humor mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter

Mary Balogh

923291b

I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.

dialogue fashion humor mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter

Mary Balogh

3bcc409

I wish it be understood that she will always be first in my life, before any other member of my family or hers and before all my other duties. I will not tolerate criticism of that fact even from you. I will hear none from you ever again.

dialogue georgian heartless historical-romance mary-balogh romance romantic

Mary Balogh

d6c5638

His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.

cynicism dancing-with-clara dialogue humor marriage mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter

Mary Balogh