"You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing."

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Source : Lily King (2014). “Euphoria”, p.62, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Lily King

#Fall Quotes #Communication Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.”
“You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.”
“Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.”
“I like triples-when I hit a ball in the gap, all I think about is a triple.”
“War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press
“To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.”
“I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.”

Source : Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”
“Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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