Contradictory Quote by William Faulkner

There are some who speak one moment before they think

— Jean de la Bruyere

Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance.…

— Michel Foucault

“I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will…

— Dexter Palmer

“Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same…

— Louis B. Saloman

Thus, in a dialogue each person does not attempt to make common certain ideas or items of information that are already known to him.…

— David Bohm

“Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them…

— Sara Zarr

“They talk like people, he thought, who have kept the huddled-up secrets of their guilts and inadequacies to themselves for a long time, only…

— Stephen King

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it…

— Terry Eagleton

People talk in ungrammatical, unwriterly ways.

— Janet Malcolm

Different people talk different ways.

— Channing Frye

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

— Lucy Grealy

Since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to…

— John Green