Basically you are like two parallel lines which never meet. Dialogue seems to be impossible. All is monologue — you are talking to yourself and the other is talking to himself. Two monologues together look like a dialogue only in appearance. – Osho, The Revolution: Talks on Kabir, 1979

If something goes without saying, let it. – Author Unknown

Lucy put out her hand as if to ward his words away… – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes… – George Eliot, “Borne Along by the Tide,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860