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“Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.”

Men Order Memories Talking Shapes Quitting Distress Examination Psychoanalysis

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.”

Stills Enjoy Talking Elements Excited Listeners Microphones

Author:Bob Edwards

“Retirement? You're talking about death, right?”

Talking Retirement

Author:Robert Altman

“There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.”

Actors Acting Talking Boring

Author:James Caan

“In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.”

Persons Real Sound Voice Talking Late Real Person Narration

Author:Robert Morgan

“I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.”

People Used Artist Talking Personality Drawing Boards Conventions Feedback

Author:David Lloyd

“My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.”

Way Talking Way Of Talking

Author:Philip Levine

“Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.”

Knows Book Talking Laughter Essence Enjoyment Bothered Max

Author:John Gould

“Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.”

Has Beens Sound Talking Violence Failing Crime Policy Waste Tough Increase Following Technique Minorities Proven Taxpayers Prevention Follow Through

Author:Bobby Scott

“The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.”

People Law Community Talking Security Protect Majors Defense Barriers Patriot National Security Law Enforcement Enforcement National Defense Patriot Act Coordinating

Author:Jon Porter

“The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.”

Fiction Talking Non Fiction

Author:Paul Auster

“Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.”

People Enough Strong Talking Class Higher Benefits Standards Average Strong Enough Resent Higher Standards Not Strong Not Strong Enough

Author:Matthew Quick

“Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.”

Ifs World Feels Littles Made Important Matter States Hands Enjoy Understanding Talking Subjects Music Is Currents Arguing Pursuit Accomplished Subject Matter World Politics

Author:John Mayer

“The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.”

People Men Way Feels Trying Talking Sun Gone Week Loneliness Baby Comfort Meat Hospitals Combat Carriages Saloons

Book:My Ears Are Bent

Source: My Ears Are Bent

“my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.”

Thinking Ideas Philosophy Belief Simple Results Talking Mystery Silent Deeper Tongue Flesh Instant Touched Mortality Sacraments Eucharist Monologues Mystery Of Love

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.”

“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.”

Knows Able Wanted Mother Turns Talking Planets Hair Swim Jupiter

Author:Patrick Monahan

“I think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so she pulled out a story I wrote (and illustrated) back in elementary school. She used that as proof that I should be writing and had been doing so unconsciously for years.”

Thinking Should Writing Years Real Stories Wanted School Used Mother Talking Proof Catalyst Elementary School

Author:Kim Smith

“Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.”

People Writing I Can Reason Voice Talking Conversation Paper Pages Dialogue Save Me Voices In My Head

Author:Kim Smith

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