"Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire."

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Source : Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.128, University of Wisconsin Pres

Edmund White

#Communication Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Desire Quotes

“When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.”
“If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.”
“Communication goes beyond the words we choose.”

Source : Tony Jeary, Kim Dower, J.E. Fishman (2005). “Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
“Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.”
“Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me”

Source : Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)
“Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.”
“The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.”
“From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.”

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