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• Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. — Elizabeth Bowen
• During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. — Fred Allen
• Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to… — Max Beerbohm
• Don't like small talk, love rainy days. — Melissa Gilbert
• In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute… — Robert Adams
• Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate… — Laurie Helgoe
• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked… — Kate Millett
• The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,… — Peter Hessler
• I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk. — Larry David
• Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk. — Croft M. Pentz
• Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and… — Yxta Maya Murray

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