No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.
I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.
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.
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