He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

About Tom Blair

Thomas Blair (24 February 1892 – 28 August 1961) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

—Sydney Smith

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I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.

—Sir Anthony Hawkins

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There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.

—Gordon Atkinson

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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