Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [. . . ] … - Theodore Zeldin

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Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

Theodore Zeldin

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [. . . ] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

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The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

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Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

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When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

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Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

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The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

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