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When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
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talking
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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words
silence
stupidity
talking
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William Faulkner |
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I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It's moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.
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friends
venting
talking
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David Levithan |
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"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."
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dee
katy
talking
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
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We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
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listening
talking
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Susan Cain |
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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.
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talking
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John Green |
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
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inspirational
listen
silent
listening
talking
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Alfred Brendel |
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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.
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influence
leadership
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-quotes
living
motivation
inspiring
motivational
life
inspirational
listen
leader
leaders
important
talk
listening
talking
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Roy T. Bennett |
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"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."
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reading
talking
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John Green |
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It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.
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life
truth
shit
talking
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Haruki Murakami |
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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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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.
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talking
laugh
speech
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Bill Bryson |
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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.
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talking
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Richard Ford |
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"In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep." --
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looking-glass
wonderland
garden
flowers
talking
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Lewis Carroll |
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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.
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only-children
talking
siblings
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Adrian McKinty |
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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.
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humanism
fantasy
the-one-ring
talking
justice
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Terry Pratchett |
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Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.
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talking
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Carrie Vaughn |
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"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!"
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books
bothered
savage
talking
thinking
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Ray Bradbury |
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Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.
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verbal-diarrhea
talking
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Jonathan Lethem |
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What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
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words
talking
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Kahlil Gibran |
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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!
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kids
youth
death
life
glare
glares
glaring
money-monetary
plead
buy
pleading
baby
kid
cry
talk
crying
talking
child
children
young
dead
eyes
young-adults
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V.C. Andrews |
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"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?")" --
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experiences
woman
human-being
world
blind
silencing
talking
gender
question
systems
oppression
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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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.
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truth
speaking
language
talking
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Max Barry |
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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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words
silence
life
tragedies
speaking
master
silent
talking
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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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.
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women
support
talking
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Nancy E. Turner |
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Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.
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quotable
talking
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Zora Neale Hurston |
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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.
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speaking
shy
talking
quiet
shyness
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Gillian Flynn |
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"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..."
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sanity
future
honesty
past
truth
pregnancy
relativism
worrying
talking
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Zadie Smith |
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talking
thinking
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Isabel Allende |
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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.
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love
scarlett-o-hara
rhett-butler
talking
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Margaret Mitchell |
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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.
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doesnt
most
you
interest
something
start
talking
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J.D. Salinger |
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Une langue etrangere, c'est comme un muscle frele, delicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.
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language-learning
talking
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Jhumpa Lahiri |
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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;
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young-love
sylvia
talking
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.
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talking
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J.D. Salinger |
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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.
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predicaments
mercy
talking
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Never let it be said that I could not talk my way out of any trouble that I could not punch.
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punching-a-shark
talking
trouble
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Kate Elliott |
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But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.
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silent
talking
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E.M. Forster |
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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?
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solitude
talking
introversion
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Graham Hancock |
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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
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erroneous-information
helping-children
improving-comprehension
reading-to-children
right-information
sensational-news
talking-with-children
newspaper
talking
parenting
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