A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
Lisa KirkTags: manners conversations etiquette-and-attitude
The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in a long Dostojevskyan conversations and drank one black coffee after another. It was sort of night typical of youth, the sort you only can look back on with shame and embarassment once you've grown up. But God knows, I must have grown up already by then, because I don't feel the slightest embarassment when I think back to it, just a terrible nostalgia.
Antal SzerbTags: nostalgia melancholy coffee young conversations nights dostoievsky
I wore an eye patch when I was a kid, you said. Maybe we met out here and fell in love over bad barbecue.
I doubt it, I said.
I'm just saying, Yunior.
Maybe five thousand years ago we were together.
Five thousand years ago I was in Denmark.
That's true. And half of me was in Africa.
Doing what?
Farming, I guess. That's what everybody does everywhere.
Maybe we were together some other time.
I can't think when, I said.
You tried not to look at me. Maybe five million years ago.
People weren't even people back then.
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For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.
Christopher HitchensTags: friendship conversations
I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.
David Foster WallaceTags: girls women stupidity relationships talking embarrassment shyness conversations
I miss talking to you.'
'I can't imagine why. We haven't talked about anything particularly interesting in years.'
'I thought it was interesting. Perhaps I like talking about boring things with you.
Tags: conversations
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.
Brian ChristianTags: conversations
Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll land on them on your way down
Josh SternTags: humor people communication mind relationships absurd funny sarcasm conversations
It's not hard to fail...it's hard to accept you failed...but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing
Josh SternTags: humor people communication mind relationships absurd funny sarcasm failure conversations sarcastic
Elizabeth smiled warmly. "For you I will allow it, Mr. Trask. How is your wife, sir? Still putting up with you, or has she finally come to her senses and run away?"
Trask laughed, slapping his knee. "I see married life has not tamed that wit of yours, Miss Elizabeth! Well done! Your poor hus- band, to be saddled with such a wench!"
Lizzy assumed a mournful face. "Yes, it is a tragic affair. It is merely a matter of time ere a cell at Bedlam will be his home.
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