“When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.” HumansSpeakGoalAchieveInformationCommunicateImpressionAttempting Author:Francine Prose
“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.” TryingCoursesSpeakImpossibleMysteryFiguresUnconsciousBereavementRiddleFathomMystery Of Death Book:Goldengrove Source: Goldengrove
“So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary.” PeopleMayMeanCharacterSpeakSoundExpressionPureConversationGreenNotionContemporaryDialogueConclusionAustenSpecificsBronte Author:Francine Prose
