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The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

Marcel Achard
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Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.

Robert C. Gallagher
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If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. -Leigh Hunt
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Truman Capote
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Richard Armour
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Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject, women do it and don't even require a subject. -Curt Goetz
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Jameson
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Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking.

Victor De Kowa
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. -Edward Gibbon
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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Emily Post
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -George Bernard Shaw
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli
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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. -Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Catherine Drinker Bowen
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. -Rebecca West
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Do not start a conversation with negative information. You won't go anywhere with it.

Nancy Friedman
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After Labor Day, we'll have a conversation with voters about what Proposition 75 is really about.

Sarah Leonard
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What is reading, but silent conversation. -Charles Lamb
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You could see it. He was always talking to himself. He would be as close as you and I, and you could see him carrying on a conversation with himself.

Tim Walker
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Giving half answers won't make the conversation half as long.

Dave Johnson
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It's a conversation I never wanted to have. -Drew Perkins
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He was possibly the brightest human being I've ever engaged in conversation.

Gretta Bader
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Walter Elliot
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Conversation is food for the soul. -Mexican Proverb
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Conversation like television set on honeymoon...unnecessary.

Peter Sellers
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This was the first conversation, we will hold further meetings.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski
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I would hesitate to characterize the conversation beyond confirming that it took place. -David Sloane
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