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“A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.”

Ifs Party Novel Missing Reader Conversation Starters After Party

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself) is part of human nature. Parties are battles (most parties), a conversation is a duel (often). Everybody's trying to hurt first, to get in the dig that will make him or her feel superior, feel triumph.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Firsts Humans Might Desire Hurt Party Dangerous Human Nature Battle Conversation Superiors Triumph Unkindness

Book:The letters of Jean Rhys

Source: The letters of Jean Rhys

“I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!”

Party Four Husband Conversation Married Died Edges Guilty Uncomfortable Chairs Embarrassment Getting Married

Author:Bette Davis

“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.”

Kind Book Sometimes Moving Certain Party Clear One Thing New York Conversation Criticism Various Reviews New Books Literary Criticism Derivatives

Author:Anna Quindlen

“shopping for clothes is like masturbation - everyone does it, but it isn't very interesting and therefore should be done alone, in an embarrassed fashion, and never be the topic of party conversation.”

Should Doe Done Interesting Party Fashion Conversation Clothes Shopping Embarrassed Topics Very Interesting Masturbation Shopping For Clothes

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation - is worth it to me. [It is] impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.”

Writing Important Sometimes Helping Night Party Imagine Impossible Conversation Late Argument Help Me Bottles Worth It What's Important Late Night

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Palindromes are the number one conversation stopper, like party killer, I think I've ever seen.”

Thinking Party Numbers Conversation Killers Palindromes

Author:Demetri Martin

“That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.”

Running Causes Party Drink Conversation Dinner Meat Dinner Party

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“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.”

People Together Joy Humanity Fall Party Conversation Illusion Distraction Love Each Other Strangeness Newness Mirages

Book:Pilgrimage

Source: Pilgrimage

“We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.”

Knows World Character Truth Passion Party Conversation Fairs Prejudice Preserves Good Will Deviate

Author:Laurence Fishburne

“In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.”

Persons Made Two God Social Party Common Conversation Thirds Third Parties Tacit

Book:Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

Source: Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

“I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role of the federal government, i do hope that Common Core will be one more, one more reason for us to have this bigger debate, this bigger conversation about the proper role of the federal government in local education.”

People Thinking Firsts Reason Government Party Common Education Roles Republican Conversation Bigger Debate Core Locals Federal Government Republican Party Common Core

Author:Bobby Jindal

“A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.”

Party Too Much Conversation Flight Companionship Everlasting Large Family Gregariousness

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.”

Source: From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel