"I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible."
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"Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men."
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""Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I."
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"It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'"
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"The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment."
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"Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student."
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"If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation."
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"If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others."
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"A little less conversation, a little more ACTION."
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"A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife."
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"Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity."
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"Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only."
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"Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student."
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"A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation."
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"I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating."
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"Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit."
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"I must have my share in the conversation."
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"There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation."
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"Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)"
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"Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation."
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