Quotes About Conversation

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Well,' Bill said, 'we might as well have another drink.' 'Damned good idea,' Mike said. 'One never gets anywhere by discussing finances.

A bottle of wine was good company.

I thought you weren't going to ever talk about it. How can I help it? You'll lose it if you talk about it. I just talk around it. You know I feel rather damned good, Jake. You should. You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me. Should we have another Martini?

You talk like a time-table. Did you have any beautiful adventures?

Do you feel better?' he asked. 'I feel fine,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.

If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back.

You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen.

Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. No, Nick said.

Let me tell you something. You won't mind, will you? Don't have scenes with your young ladies. Try not to. Because you can't have scenes without crying, and then you pity yourself so much you can't remember what the other person's said. You'll never be able to remember conversations that way. Just try and be calm. I know it's awfully hard. But remember, it's for literature. We all ought to make sacrifices for literature. Look at me. I'm going to England without a protest. All for literature.

She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.

Just two so far," Roger said. "My counselor and I." "My counselor and me," Johnny said. "How the hell do you write books?" "I can always hire someone to put in the grammar.

The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see, the old man said. He noticed how pleasant it was to have someone to talk to instead of speaking only to himself and to the sea.

Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? "Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?" le chiese "Tutto quanto." "Va bene" disse il colonnello. "Incominciamo.

Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

That moron," said Harvey. Cohn came up to our table. "Hello you bums," he said. "Hello, Robert," Harvey said. "I was just telling Jake here that you're a moron.

Why did you do it? — I don't know. Here isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do We have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?

The men ate seriously.

No," Pablo said, dipping up another cup. "I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

Fizettél nekem egy pohár sört – mondta az öreg. – Embernyi ember vagy már.

Listen, Jake, he said, are you really a Catholic? Technically. What does that mean? I don't know.

Todos precisam ter alguém para conversar - disse a mulher. - Antes, tínhamos a religião e outras coisas sem sentido. Agora, cada um precisa ter com quem falar abertamente. Pois quanto mais bravura alguém tiver, mais solitário vai ficando.

had stopped at the Montoya for several years. We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.