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“But remember, language is man’s way of communication with other people and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.” Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“So the whole war is because we can’t talk to each other.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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