All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
nobody ever dies of an indignity.
Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.