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“At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death; the walk with eyes… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
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A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
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Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“very well, didn’t you? I’m excited about the new lines.” With relief, she saw that he was willing to let her shift… — Rosalind James Copy Share Image
“On balance, most of the time, in the ordinary course of life, it was probably best to say what was in your… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
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Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story.… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
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For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Like a good play-caller, a good TV guy, if you get going on a good conversation, you can ad-lib a little bit.… — Booger McFarland Copy Share Image
Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
In congressional offices, you don't have the ability to hire enough people to have a dedicated speechwriter. So mine is my communications… — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
Social media is hugely important as a vehicle for communication. That's the reality today, whether you like it or not. The good… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I will seek to build a stable international order through dialogue, not confrontation. At the same time, however, we must be prepared… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
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I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
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