#converse

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#desire #i #man #more #never

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. ↗

— William Temple

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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

#culture #false #fatal #forms #growth

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world. ↗

— William Gass

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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#authority #between #converse #ever #her

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#husband #lover #man #silent

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. ↗

— John Stuart Blackie

#doth #glittering #god #makes #man

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed. ↗

— Edward Bond

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The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#experiences #inspired #just #life #more