"She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."
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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
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"Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation."
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"I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author."
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"And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."
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"I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you."
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"If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation."
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"The best of life is conversation."
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"Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one."
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"No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts."
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"I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions."
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"We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men."
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"The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange."
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"Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever."
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"'The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.'"
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"In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve."
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"The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny."
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"Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation."
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"All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation."
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"All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to."
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