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People can go on telling themselves things like __hink before you speak!_ or __ou don__ believe that yourself_ or __orget it!_ But they can also say, __h, what lovely flowers!_ or __re you a phone freak or something?_ or __uit yourself,_ or __his record makes me feel so happy!_ Wonderful! Words are delightful little gifts we exchange like the Easter eggs we paint and hide for others to find and enjoy. I__ forgotten that, but you reminded me of it.

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We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking.