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This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Carol Shields / Author
Monologues
My Own
Novel
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This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

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The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

Carol Shields Author

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Shields Author

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

Carol Shields Author

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol Shields Author

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

Graham Greene Writer

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

Karl Kraus Writer

I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.

Molly Shannon Comic

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Rebecca West Author

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

Steven Pinker Psychologist

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Thomas Jane Actor

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