#conversation

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ↗

— Rebecca West

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It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves. ↗

— Michael Wilding

#comes #conversation #eyes #glazed #into

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. ↗

— Juan Williams

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To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty. ↗

— Venus Williams

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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. ↗

— William Wycherley

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