"The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners."
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"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."
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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
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"The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves."
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"The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it."
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"I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them."
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"I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm."
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"I wish people would stop talking about my birthday."
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"First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers."
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"It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know?"
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"I've been the same all along. I talk when I feel like it and I shut up when I don't feel like talking."
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"Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves."
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"I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job."
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"Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to."
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"Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw."
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"Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour."
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"Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane."
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"We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally."
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"Books are dead men talking."
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"Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues."
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