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"You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did."
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"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue."
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"Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks."
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"When you make eye contact with another person, you can send thousands of silent messages without even speaking a word. No wonder eye contact can be both a direct form of communication and an elusive attribute at the same time."
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"If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude."
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"Research has shown that smiling releases endorphins-the happy hormones that shift your physiology for improved well-being. When you smile and your eyes crinkle, your body releases chemicals that change the chemistry of your brain, lifting spirits, and reducing pain. Even when it is hard to smile and you are forcing it, positive changes take place in your physiology."
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"There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves."
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"How would your life be different if.You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day.You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same."
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"Some people exert more energy on less important things, some people exert less energy on less important things."
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"Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason."
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"Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness."
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"Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!"
Imagination
"The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door."
Progress
"It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case."
Family
"The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to."
Narrative
"The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it."
Reading
"First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns."
Narrative
"You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did."
Behavior
"It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on."
Friendship
"And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it."
Experience
"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."
Sense
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