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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively. ↗

— Walter Pater

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So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Words have power. ↗

— Mira Grant

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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. ↗

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share. ↗

— Rania Al-Abdullah

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You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. ↗

— David Levithan

#honesty #lies #truth #communication

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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