One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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Jesse Andrews is an American novelist and screenwriter, who wrote the screenplays for the Pixar films Luca and Hoppers and wrote both the novel and the feature-film adaptation of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

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There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you.

—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.

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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

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Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

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One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

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