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He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you - he really is an idiot.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
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Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
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It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
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'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
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'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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1 jast think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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