“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Source: On the Road
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day
“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Source: On the Road
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Lord Goring, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover at Last
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
International Special Report: Princess Diana, 1961–1997, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/glamor0901.htm,
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) Italian painter
Quote of Morandi on a self-portrait by the painter Henri Rousseau; as cited in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 54
1925 - 1945