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• [Tras la muerte] Hablar poco parece demasiado poco, hablar mucho parece demasiado mucho.

  Anna Quindlen

  Secuelas, Grandes, Enormes

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• Eso es lo que la dirección me enseñaba día a día: que el interés personal que yo debía buscar iba mucho más allá de la inmediatez de los problemas, que por debajo de las conversaciones triviales, las biografías incompletas y las opiniones recibidas, la gente llevaba consigo una explicación central de sí misma. Historias llenas de terror y asombro, salpicadas de acontecimientos que aún les atormentaban o inspiraban. Historias sagradas.

  Barack Obama

  Enseñanza, Ser, Temas

  Barack Obama (2007). "Sueños de mi padre", p.190, Canongate Books

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• I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

  Indira Gandhi

  Jobs, Indulge In, Done

  Fuente: sangam.org

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• El dinero habla. Si es el dólar, es una conversación trivial.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Dollars, Money Talks, Ifs

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• I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

  Nick Frost

  People, Meetings

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• I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

  Gary Numan

  Eye, Hopeless, Problem

  "Gary Numan: Los valores de mi familia". Entrevista con Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. 4 de mayo de 2012.

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• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregorio Nacianceno

  Christian, Song, Sex

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• Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

  Tom Peters

  Phrases, Waste, Wasting Time

  FaceBook post by Tom Peters from Aug 19, 2013

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• Ante cualquier nueva tecnología de transmisión de información, parecemos abocados a utilizarla para grandes cantidades de cháchara. Sólo la música nos salva de vernos abrumados por tonterías.

  Lewis Thomas

  Tecnología, Uso, Información

  Lewis Thomas (1990). "A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays".

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• Sólo porque puedas saltar de una batería haciendo una patada de tijera mientras tocas un acorde, la gente espera que seas una persona extrovertida socialmente. Pero no siempre me siento cómodo con la idea de charlar en una fiesta.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fiesta, Ideas, Personas

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Entrevista con Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. 6 de enero de 2008.

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• I can't abide small talk.

  Matt Roper

  Puedo

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• To have nice interactions with people is a better than to make anyone uncomfortable, than to try to fill up some kind of lull. Like anybody else, there's times when maybe I don't feel like talking with other people. You don't have to be in show business to not feel like making small talk sometimes. But we kind of are all in this together. It makes things easier - it just makes life easier, if we're all nice to each other. I'm sure that sounds terribly corny, but honestly, it's one of those simple things that it's so simple, it's true, and it's so true that it's simple.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Nice, Simple, People

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To me, the best purpose of an interview would be to illuminate some things about how somebody works for the benefit of somebody else who wants to do those things. And that's not where most interviews go at all, so to me, they seem like strange exercises in small talk and wasted air.

  Will Oldham

  Exercise, Purpose, Strange

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Creo que en términos de ser neoyorquino, como dirían mis amigos, no soporto muchos líos. No tolero a la gente que no reflexiona profundamente sobre las cosas. No tolero las charlas triviales que la gente necesita para llenar el silencio. Y no tolero que la gente no forme parte del mundo, esté en él e intente cambiarlo.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, People, Silence

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

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• You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.

  Federico Lenz

  Mean, Forever, Mind

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• Creo que, en ciertos aspectos, el trabajo sexual se ha idealizado. Sólo puedo hablar desde mi experiencia, pero lo que me sorprendió de la prostitución fue lo aburrida que es en su mayoría. Parecía un proceso de cadena de montaje de la limpieza de mi apartamento, vestirse, hacer incómoda pequeña charla, tener sexo mecánico mundano, hacer más incómoda pequeña charla, y luego cerrar la puerta después de ellos. También hay un montón de frustración y molestia con él que siento que no se discute (un montón de clientes potenciales escamosos, por ejemplo.)

  Marie Calloway

  Sexo, Pensamiento, Frustración

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant political signs, looking desperately for some hope things would change. Religion was forbidden beginning in 1968, when I was born. So my communication with them was limited to issues of everyday life, which were issues of survival.

  Luljeta Lleshanaku

  Communication, Political, Everyday

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.

  Simon Amstell

  Pain, Real, Nice

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lo que mantiene la fe alegre es la extrema persistencia de la dulzura y el humor. La dulzura está en todas partes en la vida cotidiana, una señal de que la fe reina en las cosas ordinarias: en la cocina y en las conversaciones triviales, en la narración de cuentos, en hacer el amor, en pescar, en cuidar de los animales, del maíz dulce y de las flores, en los deportes, la música y los libros, en la educación de los hijos... en todos los lugares donde la salsa empapa y la gracia brilla. Incluso en una época de vanidad y codicia elefantiásicas, no hay que mirar muy lejos para ver las hogueras de gente amable. A falta de otro propósito en la vida, bastaría con vivir por ellos.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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• The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Soccer, Lonely, Couple

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• My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of feeling 'a dull pain in the brain'--a physical pain, as he used to say--when he was with people who cared only for small talk.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Brother, Pain, Writing

  Peter Kropotkin, Georg Brandes (2009). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

  Max Beerbohm

  Men, Vanity, Theme

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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• [Sin embargo, el depresivo no tiene otra opción y, por lo tanto, se encuentra, como un herido de guerra andante, en las situaciones sociales y familiares más intolerables. Allí debe... presentar una cara que se aproxime a la que se asocia con los acontecimientos ordinarios y la compañía. Debe intentar entablar conversaciones triviales y responder a preguntas, asentir con la cabeza, fruncir el ceño y, que Dios le ayude, incluso sonreír.

  William Styron

  War, Trying, Events

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• He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.

  Mark Helprin

  Dawn, Naked, Half

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

  Nicholas Sparks

  Secret, Would Be, Saws

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Nights In Rodanthe”, p.48, Hachette UK

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