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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
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If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
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If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
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It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
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It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
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Live in rooms full of light; Avoid heavy food; Be moderate in the drinking of wine; Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics; Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water; Change surroundings and take long journeys; Strictly avoid frightening ideas; Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements; Listen to music.
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Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
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Modest egotism is the salt of conversation.
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