“All this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn’t think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.”
Margaret Atwood
more infosource: The Edible Woman (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999), 112.
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category: communication, confession, introvert, socializing, talk
medium: Fiction
“I’d rather not talk at all, to be honest with you.”
Troy Polamalu
more infosource: “A Defensive Anchor Walks a Spiritual Path,” by Karen Krouse, The New York Times, January 12, 2011.
category: football, silence, spirituality, sports, talk
medium: newspaper article
“Try not to speak.”
Sir Arthur John Gielgud
more infosource: Arthur, Orion Pictures (1981)
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category: conversation, film quotes, listen, silence, speak, talk
medium: film
notes: Arthur was written and directed by Steven Gordon
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