Conversation, as I know it, is like juggling; up go the balls and the balloons and the plates, up and over, in and out, spinning and leaping, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) English novelist

Brideshead Revisited, Book 1, ch. 2 [Anthony Blanche] (1945)
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