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3042442 When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. talking Catherine Gilbert Murdock
0a1695b Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. silence stupidity talking words William Faulkner
3a7d403 I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It's moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest. friends talking venting David Levithan
3ef8a69 "We can't lose you," she said after a few moments of awkward as hell silence. "You have to understand that we aren't doing this because we don't care about Kat. We're doing this because we love you." "But I love her," I said without hesitation. Dee's eyes widened, probably since it was the first time she'd herd me say it out loud, well, about anyone other than my family. I wished I had said it more often, especially to Kat. Funny how that kind of shit always turns out in the end. While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late that you realize what you've should've said or done/ It couldn't be too late. I knew that. The fact that I was still alive was testament to that. Like Dee said, though, there were worse things than death." dee katy talking Jennifer L. Armentrout
7d56834 We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally. listening talking Susan Cain
cd6b469 I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb. talking John Green
87d8080 The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'. inspirational listen listening silent talking Alfred Brendel
59e709c The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel. important influence inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes listen listening living motivation motivational talk talking Roy T. Bennett
b6abd14 "How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked. "Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging." reading talking John Green
6bcbbcd It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit. life shit talking truth Haruki Murakami
44938b4 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. conversation rumours slander stupid-people stupidity talking Anne Brontë
574b963 People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response. If what we say is suitably apt and amusing, the listener will show his delight by emitting a series of uncontrolled high-pitched noises, accompanied by sharp intakes of breath of the sort normally associated with a seizure or heart failure. And by these means we converse. Talking, when you think about it, is a very strange business indeed. laugh speech talking Bill Bryson
44cecdd Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences. talking Richard Ford
64d5bb2 "In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep." -- flowers garden looking-glass talking wonderland Lewis Carroll
cc16128 It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you. only-children siblings talking Adrian McKinty
ea6ee2c Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry into a volcano is the possibility that evil can be defused by talking. The fantasy of justice is more interesting than the fantasy of fairies, and more truly fantastic. fantasy humanism justice talking the-one-ring Terry Pratchett
977bb45 Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower. talking Carrie Vaughn
2e1b39a "Let me alone," said Mildred "Let alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave alone? That's what's wrong. We need to be let alone. We need to be upset and stirred and bothered, once in a while, anyway. Nobody bothers anymore. Nobody thinks. Let a baby alone, why don't you? What would you have in twenty years? A savage, unable to think or talk--like us!" books bothered savage talking thinking Ray Bradbury
19fc589 Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car. talking verbal-diarrhea Jonathan Lethem
ea04dbf What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? talking words Kahlil Gibran
af05817 "I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, "Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?")" -- blind experiences gender human-being oppression question silencing systems talking woman world Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9fb0c53 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 life master silence silent speaking talking tragedies words Fyodor Dostoyevsky
d9c35b2 Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead! baby buy child children cry crying dead death eyes glare glares glaring kid kids life money-monetary plead pleading talk talking young young-adults youth V.C. Andrews
d90ea88 It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it. language speaking talking truth Max Barry
0a20be8 I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me. support talking women Nancy E. Turner
a1ea805 Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees. quotable talking Zora Neale Hurston
1e6a305 Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much. quiet shy shyness speaking talking Gillian Flynn
d943731 "But I cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the I have to worry about the truth that can be And that is the difference between losing your marbles drinking the salty sea, or swallowing the stuff from the streams. My Niece-of-Shame believes in the talking cure, eh?" says Alsana, with something of a grin. "Talk, talk, talk and it will be better. Be honest, slice open your heart and spread the red stuff around. But the past is made of more than words, dearie. We married old men, you see? These bumps"--Alsana pats them both --"they will always have daddy-long-legs for fathers. One leg in the present, one in the past. No talking will change this. Their roots will always be tangled. And roots get dug up. Just look in my garden - birds at the coriander every bloody day..." future honesty past pregnancy relativism sanity talking truth worrying Zadie Smith
e19ab2f 'n ltklm hw kynwn@ 'yDan . flym@ w lklm@ hm fkr lnsn . wyjb `dm ltHdth jzfan wdwn hdf talking thinking Isabel Allende
0a7591f Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight. love rhett-butler scarlett-o-hara talking Margaret Mitchell
0c86cf1 But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. doesnt interest most something start talking you J.D. Salinger
6e56707 At that point, Frank seemed to run out of words. There was somebody that he'd reminded me of, as he was spinning out his story and struggling to explain himself. Then I realized: it was myself...when I had desperately tried to talk my way out of something that could never be put right. He was doing the same thing I had done. He was trying to talk his way into absolution. In that moment, I felt overcome by a sense of mercy...for that younger version of myself...Then my mercy swelled, and for just a moment I felt mercy for everyone who has ever gotten involved in an impossibly messy story. All those predicaments that we humans find ourselves in - predicaments that we never see coming, do not know how to handle, and then cannot fix. mercy predicaments talking Elizabeth Gilbert
8c84a7f But between the busy heads and over-reaching arms he could see Charley and Sylvia, sitting close together, talking and listening more than eating. She was in a new strange state of happiness not to be reasoned about, or accounted for, but in a state of more exquisite feeling than she had ever experienced before; sylvia talking young-love Elizabeth Gaskell
ee00658 Une langue etrangere, c'est comme un muscle frele, delicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit. language-learning talking Jhumpa Lahiri
d76c5e6 Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word. talking J.D. Salinger
6778193 Never let it be said that I could not talk my way out of any trouble that I could not punch. punching-a-shark talking trouble Kate Elliott
f2f101c But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak. silent talking E.M. Forster
85106a9 I observe out of the corner of my eye that the man with the notebook is walking towards me and obviously intends to introduce himself. Why do human beings have to , I find myself wondering. Is it really necessary for us to make these noises? introversion solitude talking Graham Hancock
b594783 You have to talk to your children about things, a lot of our parents don't do that. You have to explain things to children as to why certain things happen. I think that a good way of improving comprehension is to read the newspaper with your child. A lot of times certain sensational things happen and children want to find out why it happened. And sometimes you would hear them talking to each other passing on erroneous information. Daynette Gardiner, the best School Psychologist in The Bahamas erroneous-information helping-children improving-comprehension newspaper parenting reading-to-children right-information sensational-news talking talking-with-children Drexel Deal
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