dialogue quotes

Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

-Aung San Suu Kyi
  Freedom From Fear,'In Quest of Democracy'.

The unending dialogue between the present and the past.

- Alejo Carpentier
Of biography. Quoted in  James G Hershberg James B Conant (1993).

By the way, do you ever read the Bible? I suppose not very often, but I had occasion to the other night and believe me it is a lesson in how not to write for the movies. The worst kind of overwriting.Whole chapters that could have been said in one paragraph. And the dialogue!

- Raymond Chandler
  Letter to Edgar Carter, 28 Mar.

Death is a dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust.

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
c.1864  Complete Poems, no.976 (first published1890).

The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue.

- StanleyJasspon Kunitz
  In the NewYork Times,11 Mar.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

- David Alan Mamet
  In The Independent,11 Nov.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because, when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

- Rod Sterling
  'TheTrend-SettingTraditionalism of Architecture', in the NewYorkTimes,13 Jan.