Conversation Quotes - Page 34

• If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the conversation you're having with actual human beings happen to dovetail.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Nice, Book, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Interesting, Preparation, Gone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel about the Iraq War, Fobbit steps into the political conversation. There's no way to avoid that. I can appreciate that readers are probably going to line up on one side of the novel or the other. I hope they go to those polar extremes, actually.

  Dave Abrams

  War, Writing, Iraq

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

  Al Gore

  Winning, Differences, Climate

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Yelling, Police

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What I hate - a lot of conversations about choosing not to have children tend to be couched in these superficial terms, or kind of glib, "I'd rather have a Porsche" or "I forgot to have kids." No you didn't.

  Meghan Daum

  Children, Hate, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.

  Alex Lemon

  Crucible, Language, Energizing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

  Cecily McMillan

  Political, Rooms, Should

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are not headline-grabbing massacres. They`re more private, more intimate, and perhaps in that way, even more horrifying. Domestic violence, make no mistake, domestic violence is a gun issue.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Mistake, Gun, Mass Shootings

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could be a new chance.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Morning, New Beginnings, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms.

  Astra Taylor

  Media, Would Be, Tools

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversation is. There's also this neurological fixation, the incessant wondering what the Internet's doing to our brain: "Does it make us stupid, does it make us distracted?" And then the other guys say, "No, it's making us smarter than ever, and better than ever, and more connected." And it's like, where is the economic and social context? Why is that rarely considered?

  Astra Taylor

  Stupid, Talking, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.

  Craig Finn

  Couple, Heart, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

  Hilton Als

  Challenges, Listening, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.

  Fady Joudah

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.

  Anthony Marra

  Song, Mean, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor.

  Anthony Marra

  Girlfriend, Numbers, Imagination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People choose the most flattering photos of themselves to put on Facebook. Text messages can be vague and confusing. But conversations are confusing too. And some people wear lots of makeup. I think it's just hard to be a person.

  Chelsea Martin

  Makeup, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration society, not a debating society, not a repair shop, not a fight club or a soap box. It's a place to have a conversation about a story.

  John Dufresne

  Teaching, Writing, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.

  St. Lucia

  Growing Up, States, South

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Needs, Care, Tables

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• It's very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration.

  Wentworth Miller

  Taken, Important, Fans

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

  Carl Hart

  People, Drug, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want people to feel conflicted. I want them to feel for characters they started out hating. I want to start conversations about what it means to be a parent. About the responsibility we bear to ourselves and to each other.

  Sian Heder

  Hate, Responsibility, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think Gmail chats are different than IRL conversations because Gmail chats are saved by Gmail exactly as they occurred. I like texts and emails. Seems like I don't have anything to say that isn't obvious about texts, emails, and Gmail chats.

  Tao Lin

  Thinking, Email, Different

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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