We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.
Frank DelaneyShe was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.
Ruth Frances LongTag: trees insane talking jenny realm jack-o-the-forest
Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.
Galt NiederhofferTag: time waiting phone precious movie line talking traffic important pace worthwhile accelerated
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.
Galt NiederhofferTag: books music things ideas listening laughing wasting-time talking driving cruel together pop-culture kind nowhere trivial rare appetite thresholds understood obsessing discussing dissecting listening-to-music lofty occasions reconnect shared tire yearned
Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.
Tom BurnsTag: family emotion conversation kids talking quality-time
(أغلف كذبي بالضحك وأغمغم:
ـ أنا أنسى دائماً...
يطعنني جوابه:
ـ أنت واقعية.. تعيشين اللحظة للحظة.
وتسطع الأنوار. وتعلو الموسيقا. ويتكاثف الدخان
We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
Susan CainTag: listening talking introversion
It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.
Adrian McKintyTag: brothers siblings talking only-children
What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
Kahlil GibranI 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 WallaceTag: girls women stupidity relationships talking embarrassment shyness conversations
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