Quotes About Communication

I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.

Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.

Some conversations are not about what they're about.

There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.

When I contemplate the physical spaces that articulate the letters 'I love you' in a written text, I may be led to think about other spaces, for example the space that lies between 'you' in the text and you in my life.

for when I look at you, even for a moment, no speaking is left in me

English is a bitch

Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.

Oral cultures and literate cultures do not think, perceive or fall in

A translator is someone trying to get in between a body and its shadow.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.

The basic rules of male-female relations were imparted atmospherically in our family, no direct speech allowed.

WHEN HE IS there they list the stones together. The stones are her lungs.

Oh sweetie, he says. He is using his inside voice, his most inside voice. The distance between that voice and the fight voice measures your whole world.

I hope that you will wave back to me from your distant shore, and understand the signal.

In fact, neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consumation. The words we read and the words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

How often do we offer advice when what is really required is a compassionate ear?

Are these words true? At the second: Are they necessary? At the third: Are they kind?

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.

Just the way all mothers are crazy to their daughters, all mothers are wrong.

But was talking aloud allowed?