Quotes About Dialogue

If you really want to change someone's mind on a moral or political matter, you'll need to see things from that person's angle as well as your own. And if you do truly see it the other person's way—deeply and intuitively—you might even find your own mind opening in response. Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.

However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

They got stoneder and stoneder and quit talking.

on the one hand there's mansplaining, and on the other, there's the sound of a woman quoting the mansplaining to another woman.

Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

It's just that sometimes we make things up just to talk

Alex?" I told him yes. "You're my translator, right?" I asked him to be slow, because I could not understand him. In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

You are a schmuck," I informed the hero. "You're not using the word correctly," he said. "Yes I am," I said.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation

we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.

There never was a war between religion and empirical science, but there is a war between religion and

Esperar con más o menos paciencia a que el otro termine de hablar solo para poder decir lo que ya estábamos pensando, no necesariamente es dialogar, sino muchas veces la mezcla y superposición de dos monólogos...

Knjiga je nekaj ve? kot besedna struktura. Je dialog, ki ga za?ne s svojim bralcem. Ta dialog je neskon?en, književnost je neiz?rpna, in to zaradi zelo preprostega razloga - ker je vsaka knjiga taka. Knjiga ni stvar brez komunikacije: je razmerje, je opora neštetih razmerij.

What is a book? A book seems, like a picture, to be a living being; and yet if we ask it something, it does not answer. Then we see that it is dead.In order to make the book into a living thing, he invented—happily for us—the Platonic dialogue, which forestalls the reader's doubts and questions.

The exchange of thoughts is a condition necessary for all love, all friendship and all real dialogue. Two men who can speak together can enrich and broaden themselves indefinitely.

Todo lenguaje es un alfabeto de símbolos cuyo ejercicio presupone un pasado que los interlocutores comparten.

Can a lie be taken as communication? I tend to deny it. A lie is the opposite of communication. It means specifically to withhold the other's share and portion of reality, to prevent his participation in reality.

Un romanzo o una poesia non è un monologo, bensì una conversazione tra uno scrittore e un lettore: una conversazione, ripeto, del tutto privata, che esclude tutti gli altri – un atto, se si vuole, di reciproca misantropia.

Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy

For the human mind in its polarity of the male and female modes of experience, in its passages from infancy to adulthood and old age, in its toughness and tenderness, and in its continuing dialogue with the world, is the ultimate mythogenetic zone -the creator and destroyer, the slave and yet the master, of all the gods.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.