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Talking Back Quotes

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
- Anatole Broyard

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.
- Caroline Dhavernas

Issie?"
After a second her voice comes out small and tired. "I'm not here."
"Oh." I back up so I can stare at the bathroom door. No feet. "Then I should probably freak out because the toilet is talking back to me, huh? A little too many pain meds for Zara today.
- Carrie Jones

You can't get away from dire health, but you may as well get some use out of it. It is not a question of making sense of suffering, because nothing does make sense of it. It is a question of not... sinking into it. It is talking back to whatever hurts, whether that is physical or psychological, so that it doesn't submerge you.
- Hilary Mantel

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.
- Donna Shalala

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
- L Neil Smith

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