“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.” IfsShouldLittlesEndsLightFallLeftSpeakMissingObjectsConversationBallsDearSpheresPlatesRainbowClayBangsPipeGlitterDriftingJugglingDrifting Off Author:Evelyn Waugh
“Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love.” StillsFallWishPiecesConversationMaking Love Author:Thom Yorke
“Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?” FeelsFallConversation Author:Phyllis McGinley
“After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.” MenWantSelfFallSexToo MuchAliveHe ManConversationIntimacyUnconsciousMeltingWomen WantX MenFusionMergingFalling Asleep Author:Nancy Friday
“St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.” TwoFallAnimalSawsCreationBearsOne DayConversationForestsAdamTerrifiedNun Author:Olivier Clement
“The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.” PeopleTogetherJoyHumanityFallPartyConversationIllusionDistractionLove Each OtherStrangenessNewnessMirages Book:Pilgrimage Source: Pilgrimage