A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.
By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'
I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.