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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“No one has time any more for anyone else.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you...” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk'” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” Jane Austen, Emma
“I like talking to a brick wall—it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“So soon as I talk I express the universal, and if I do not do so, no one can understand me.” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression . . . that gives reality to things.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.” George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” Linus Torvalds
“life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“First sign of madness, talking to your own head” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk—real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“He thought much but said little, unless it was to call loudly for men to bring him fire and food.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“He woke the robot up because even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I sit down beside her and she talks—a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.” Dan Simmons, Hyperion
“Most people don’t know how to appreciate silence. They can’t help talking.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“books are dead men talking. ” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness; and where will you find this but in woman?” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.” Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Gail has said in interviews before that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence—of talking without meaning—is never effaced.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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