I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme….There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use...
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Nicole Krauss
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Epictetus
Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story, and really hearing, that person will disappear from existence in...
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Jennifer Michael Hecht
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
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Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.
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Doug Larson
More Quotes By H.W. Brands
One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.
It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history...
He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.
He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.
He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign
