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Versation Quotes

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us Picture Quote #1

Democracy isn’t solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals Picture Quote #1

People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves Picture Quote #1

Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene Picture Quote #1

Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn’t be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together Picture Quote #1

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going Picture Quote #1

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Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life Picture Quote #1

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are! Picture Quote #1

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket’s saw, the star’s blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken? Picture Quote #1

Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge Picture Quote #1

Sometimes when it looks like I’m deep in thought I’m just trying not to have a conversation with people Picture Quote #1

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine Picture Quote #1

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If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended Picture Quote #1

... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught Picture Quote #1

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human Picture Quote #1

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas Picture Quote #1

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric Picture Quote #1

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not Picture Quote #1

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I don’t need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn’t a goal of mine. I can’t even have that conversation of whether or not it’s important, because if someone asks me that... I don’t want to have a conversation with them until they grow up Picture Quote #1

And it’s not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don’t want to, I’m not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation, and wish that you’d listened to me Picture Quote #1

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf Picture Quote #1

An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy Picture Quote #1

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn’t want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone Picture Quote #1

A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years Picture Quote #1

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What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I’d say it’s this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation Picture Quote #1

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence Picture Quote #1

Individuals are fine once you get to know them, especially if they’re interesting in conversation or have large, sumptuous breasts, but I don’t like people in the plural and I’ve seen very little to change my mind about that Picture Quote #1

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness Picture Quote #1

And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody’s brother, somebody’s usher, somebody’s roommate, somebody’s roommate’s usher’s brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book Picture Quote #1

We’re all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We’re all peering in at the window of a party we aren’t invited to yet, a party we wouldn’t know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone’s guest Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us (Versation Quotes) Democracy isn’t solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals (Versation Quotes) People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves (Versation Quotes) Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene (Versation Quotes) Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn’t be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together (Versation Quotes) Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going (Versation Quotes) Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life (Versation Quotes) Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are! (Versation Quotes) I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket’s saw, the star’s blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken? (Versation Quotes) Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge (Versation Quotes) Sometimes when it looks like I’m deep in thought I’m just trying not to have a conversation with people (Versation Quotes) Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine (Versation Quotes) If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended (Versation Quotes) ... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught (Versation Quotes) Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human (Versation Quotes) I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas (Versation Quotes) We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric (Versation Quotes) Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not (Versation Quotes) I don’t need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn’t a goal of mine. I can’t even have that conversation of whether or not it’s important, because if someone asks me that... I don’t want to have a conversation with them until they grow up (Versation Quotes) And it’s not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don’t want to, I’m not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation, and wish that you’d listened to me (Versation Quotes) Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf (Versation Quotes) An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy (Versation Quotes) More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn’t want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone (Versation Quotes) A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years (Versation Quotes) What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I’d say it’s this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation (Versation Quotes) There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence (Versation Quotes) Individuals are fine once you get to know them, especially if they’re interesting in conversation or have large, sumptuous breasts, but I don’t like people in the plural and I’ve seen very little to change my mind about that (Versation Quotes) To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness (Versation Quotes) And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody’s brother, somebody’s usher, somebody’s roommate, somebody’s roommate’s usher’s brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book (Versation Quotes) We’re all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We’re all peering in at the window of a party we aren’t invited to yet, a party we wouldn’t know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone’s guest (Versation Quotes)

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