conversation

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

If you feel alone take topic make conversation with your soul. it gives more positive attention to know who you are.

Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World's Club bouncers at Immigration, getting into a massive cab that didn't have a moment to waste, and falling in love as soon as we shot onto the bridge and I saw Manhattan rise up through the looks of parental terror reflected in the window. I lost my virginity in New York, twice (the second one wanted to believe he was the first so badly). I had my mind blown open by the combination of a liberal arts education and a drug-popping international crowd. I became tough. I had fun. I learned so much.But now New York was starting to feel empty, a great party that had gone on too long and was showing no sign of ending soon. I had a headache, and I was tired. I'd danced enough. I wanted a quiet conversation with someone who knew what load-shedding was.

Never does one open the discussion by coming right to the heart of the matter. For the heart of the matter is always somewhere else than where it is supposed to be. To allow it to emerge, people approach it indirectly by postponing until it matures, by letting it come when it is ready to come. There is no catching, no pushing, no directing, no breaking through, no need for a linear progression which gives the comforting illusion that one knows where one goes. Time and space are not something entirely exterior to oneself, something that one has, keeps, saves, wastes, or loses.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh d_''And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Though blue sky and the road__ yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

If you chose Option 2 [confrontation], you did well. People will be less likely to engage you in office small talk of any kind, but that's likely a benefit when you consider the fact that every ten minutes of office small talk takes one year off of your life.

Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person who had been somewhere that other people are not likely to go or had done something that others are not apt to do.

We call talking about other people__ personal lives __ossip_ only if we aren__ or weren__ part of the conversation.

When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt.

How__ your father?___ow do you think he is? You stabbed him in the foot.___ would have aimed for his heart, but I wasn__ sure he actually had one. Do any of you have one?

Talk helps shape one's thoughts.