dialogue

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d8578b1	"They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody."	paranoid dialogue cynical	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.	life self-identity dialogue self parents	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.	writing dialogue	P.G. Wodehouse
4fc67d2	The Lord of Rags and Tatters.	young-adult fantasy dialogue	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.	relationships dialogue culture sociology psychology	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."	prayer god tree dialogue wish child	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."	metaphor the-end the-green-knight iris-murdoch giving-up dialogue resilience	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.	libraries library books dialogues-between-books parchment speaking dialogue	Umberto Eco
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."	suffering the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch dialogue suicidal trapped depressed release hell	Iris Murdoch
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
4d38cb7	I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.	humor scoundrel the-black-prince iris-murdoch dialogue dislike	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.	tender embrace declaration-of-love the-green-knight iris-murdoch unconditional-love confession dialogue	Iris Murdoch
fc6f639	"I said, "Your brother is in bed with my wife." I added, "I just took them up some wine in bed."	humor iris-murdoch dialogue witty	Iris Murdoch
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.	tin-can waitress like-life lorrie-moore restaurant dialogue introvert conversations	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."	relationships the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch dialogue	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.	romance humor witty-banter regency-romance mary-balogh regency dialogue	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.	romance humor witty-banter regency-romance mary-balogh regency dialogue fashion	Mary Balogh
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?" --	humor dialogue the-only-story julian-barnes teasing	Julian Barnes
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.	marriage romance humor witty-banter dancing-with-clara regency-romance mary-balogh regency dialogue cynicism	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.	romantic romance georgian heartless mary-balogh dialogue historical-romance	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.

life self-identity dialogue self parents

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.

writing dialogue

P.G. Wodehouse

4fc67d2

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

young-adult fantasy dialogue

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.

relationships dialogue culture sociology psychology

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."

prayer god tree dialogue wish child

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."

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

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.

libraries library books dialogues-between-books parchment speaking dialogue

Umberto Eco

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."

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

Iris Murdoch

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

4d38cb7

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

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

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.

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

Iris Murdoch

fc6f639

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

humor iris-murdoch dialogue witty

Iris Murdoch

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.

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

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."

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

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.

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

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.

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

Mary Balogh

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?" --

humor dialogue the-only-story julian-barnes teasing

Julian Barnes

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.

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

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.

romantic romance georgian heartless mary-balogh dialogue historical-romance

Mary Balogh