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  1. J.D. Salinger _ The Catcher in the Rye

    But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.
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  2. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word."
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  3. Bill Bryson _ The Mother Tongue: English and

    People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response. If what we say is suitably apt and amusing, the listener will show his delight by emitting a series of uncontrolled high-pitched noises, accompanied by sharp intakes of breath of the sort normally associated with a seizure or heart failure. And by these means we converse. Talking, when you think about it, is a very strange business indeed.
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  4. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    But I cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the I have to worry about the truth that can be And that is the difference between losing your marbles drinking the salty sea, or swallowing the stuff from the streams. My Niece-of-Shame believes in the talking cure, eh?" says Alsana, with something of a grin. "Talk, talk, talk and it will be better. Be honest, slice open your heart and spread the red stuff around. But the past is made of more than words, dearie. We married old men, you see? These bumps"--Alsana pats them both --"they will always have daddy-long-legs for fathers. One leg in the present, one in the past. No talking will change this. Their roots will always be tangled. And roots get dug up. Just look in my garden - birds at the coriander every bloody day...
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  5. Isabel Allende _ The Stories of Eva Luna

    أن التكلم هو كينونة أيضًا . فالإيماءة و الكلمة هما فكر الإنسان . ويجب عدم التحدث جزافًا ودون هدف
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  6. E.M. Forster _ The Celestial Omnibus and

    But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.
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  7. Kahlil Gibran _ The Prophet

    What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
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  8. Ray Bradbury _ A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit

    Let me alone," said Mildred"Let alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave alone? That's what's wrong. We need to be let alone. We need to be upset and stirred and bothered, once in a while, anyway. Nobody bothers anymore. Nobody thinks. Let a baby alone, why don't you? What would you have in twenty years? A savage, unable to think or talk--like us!
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  9. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!
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  10. Gillian Flynn _ Dark Places

    Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.
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  11. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep."
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  12. Richard Ford _ The Lay of the Land

    Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.
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