- Nov 07, 2020
Talk Quotes
On conversation, honesty, and what goes unsaid.
These quotes range from a simple family ritual of talking through the week's proudest moments to a sharper point about how rhetoric on freedom and equal opportunity can expose real contradictions in a society. Browse About quotes for related reflections.
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- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020