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Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.