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Lemony Snicket
"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf."
Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)
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"When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said."
— Catherine Murdock (Dairy Queen)
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Brent Weeks
"Why did women always belief that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on."
Brent Weeks (Shadow's Edge)
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Charlie Kaufman
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. "
Charlie Kaufman
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William Faulkner
"Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words."
William Faulkner (Mosquitoes: A Novel)
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""If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today."
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James Andrews
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"He was born to be WWE Champion

[talking about John Cena]"
— Mr Mcmahon
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David Byrne
"I don't care how impossible it seems."
David Byrne
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Laozi
"To talk little is natural.
High winds do not last all morning.
Heavy rain does not last all day."
Laozi
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"I salute you"
— Warren Hikari
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"No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves"
Hugh Prather (I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me)
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"Just because the plumbing has been installed doesn't mean that the house is ready to be occupied."
— Dorothy (The Golden Girls)
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Edith Wharton
"Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them."
Edith Wharton
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""It's not really a surprise we were known as the weaker sex, because you literally cannot get a breath. So it's sort of, as soon as you start getting emotional, if you're doing an emotional scne, you can't calm down. you can't literally draw a breath to try and center yourself again," she said. "It's no wonderful they were sort of fainting all over the place.""
— Keira Knightley
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"If you love me, feed my sheep."
— Jesus
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Jonathan Lethem
"The alphabet Miss Poobner taught was represented on the wall above her head by a series of personified cartoonlike letters--Mr. A, Eating an Apple; Mrs. B, Buying a Broom; and so on--and something insipid about the parade of grinning letters defeated Dylan's will utterly."
Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude)
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Jonathan Lethem
"'Go buy milk,' Robert said at last.
Dylan moved for Buggy's door.
'But if ou come around here with that old lady's money next time I might have to take it off you.'
Dylan recognized this as a sort of philosophical using. He was grateful for the implied sense of pooled information. He and Robert could move forward together from this point into whatever was required."
Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude)
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Tarjei Vesaas
"Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes."
Tarjei Vesaas (The Boat in the Evening)
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"Verbal hemophilia. Why can't I clot?"
Scott Mebus
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"If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044."
Eugene Mirman (The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life)
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Nancy E. Turner
"I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me. "
Nancy E. Turner (These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : A Novel)
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"I think I tend to be drawn to, a lot of the stories have really strong family elements. I'm really drawn to that element of it. I think that's one of the biggest hooks of the show for me, is like, what do these powers do to the relationships in everybody's lives? I really feel like the dynamic in the Bennett family is really compelling and really complicated."
Zachary Quinto
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