Verbal hemophilia. Why can't I clot?

Scott Mebus

Tags: talking



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Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

Tarjei Vesaas

Tags: seeing eyes talking speaking looking



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Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.

Jonathan Lethem

Tags: humor talking verbal-diarrhea



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Analyzing data from 79 men and women who wore inconspicuous devices that recorded some of their conversations over the course of four days, researchers from Washington University and the University of Arizona found a correlation between feelings of well-being and the amount of time spent talking every day. Moreover, the more substantive your conversations, the happier you're likely to be. In other words, heart-to-hearts trump small talk. (LA Times, "A lof of happy talk", March 11, 2010, A21.)

Meghan Daum

Tags: happiness talking closeness



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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Abraham Lincoln

Tags: politics thinking empathy talking political-advice



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I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.

John Green

Tags: talking conversations



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The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

Tony Burgess

Tags: words language speech talking



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You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

Johnny Depp

Tags: silence funny talking careful



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Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Richard Ford

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Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

Hillary Frank

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