#dial

We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#communication #converse #dialogue #funny #humor

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful. ↗

— Cole Younger

#capture #considerate #cordially #disposition #feel

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself. ↗

— Robert Towne

#almost #develop #dialogue #drawn #ear

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue. ↗

— Robert Towne

#dialogue #entirely #faces #fact #important

A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool. ↗

— Lord Mahāvīra

#attitude #fact #fate #fool #foolish

Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born. Would you like to hear?” “Very much.” “It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about — things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘all right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dramatic-moment #beauty

Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise. ↗

— John Durham Peters

#dialogue #scattering #communication

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discourse #interpersonal-communication #love #philosophy #wisdom

-My son was 32 when he died.
 -Degrees? So he froze to death, huh? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny-dialogue #death

Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to. ↗

— Derek Landy

#death #dialogue #field #humour #nobody-to-talk-to