“It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.”
“It’s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.”
“For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.”
“He flatters me because he knows I am flattered by him flattering me. And that flatters him. So when he flatters me, he is really flattering himself.”
“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”