Conversation quotes
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"Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet."
"Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed."
"The only proper intoxication is conversation."
"He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear."
"That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science."
"Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul."
"One must talk. That's how it is. One must."
"Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself."
"The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death."
"Conversation makes one what he is."
"Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box."
"... you simply can't imagine what men will say!"
"Why is there even a conversation about feminism?"
"Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation."
"Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations."
"I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books."
"Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself."
"Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect."
"A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer."
"How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging."
