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“Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important art is to omit"; the key to being a master conversationalist is to listen at least as much as you talk. Just as the other arts include pauses in a dramatic play, white margins around printed text, and space between a singer's phrases, conversation is about silences as well as about words.”
― The Art of Civilized Conversation: A Guide to Expressing Yourself With Style and Grace
― The Art of Civilized Conversation: A Guide to Expressing Yourself With Style and Grace
“Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“There's no such thing as the life you're supposed to have.”
― All Our Wrong Todays
― All Our Wrong Todays
“We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.”
― All Our Wrong Todays
― All Our Wrong Todays
“When you jump off a cliff, falling can look a whole lot like flying, for a while anyway.”
― All Our Wrong Todays
― All Our Wrong Todays
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