"The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication."
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"Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient."
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"To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people."
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"Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are, with whom he never before had, or ever again will have any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance."
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"Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations."
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"Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?"
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"Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal."
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"Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack."
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"If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now."
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"[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition."
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"We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish."
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"Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it."
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"It's a community event. Community events create strong communities, and a strong community is a healthy community. A healthy community is a happy community."
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"While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener."
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"The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other."
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"...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications."
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"We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right."
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"To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication."
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"Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel."
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"...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society."
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