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Quotes About Interaction

Au fond, ce qui serait honnête, ce serait de remplacer le mur de ciment par un mur de papier, de mots, de cahiers: les passants pourraient lire ou déchirer, et s'ils déchiraient mes pages, nous serions enfin face à face; écrire, c'est ma façon d'être silencieux.
~ Unknown
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
~ Jacques Lacan
L'hypothèse d'une rencontre........l'hypothèse d'une réponse l'hypothèse de quelqu'un
~ Unknown
Un livre a toujours deux auteurs : celui qui l'écrit et celui qui le lit.
~ Unknown
Sincopele în comunicare sunt f?cute dintr-o prea mare sensibilitate la reac?iile celuilalt, din intoleran?? la suferin??, la dezam?gire sau la mânia celuilalt. Dintr-o prea mare reac?ie la reac?ie.
~ Unknown
Would you call me 'excessive'?" Madison asked Piper. "Not to your face," Piper replied.
~ Unknown
Nice return, Andrew," Logan said as they
~ Unknown
this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely;
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Children must not stare at their elders," he said. "That is ill-bred." "Huh?" both of them asked. What's "stare," they wondered; "elders"; "ill-bred"? "Say, 'Sir,' or 'I beg your pardon, Father.' " "Sir?" Rufus said. "You," Father Jackson said to Catherine. "Sir?" Catherine said. "You must not stare at people—look at them, as you are looking at me.
~ James Agee
When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
~ James Altucher
If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.
~ Unknown
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.
~ Luigi Pirandello
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve to you.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Pois é": uma maneira tipicamente brasileira de não ficar quieto e ao mesmo tempo não dizer nada.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
Dinner parties bring out the worst in everyone.
~ Unknown
While reading Tarot I have had encounters with so-called dead people that do not consider themselves so. The information that they have passed on to the client is always valid ... and what has become obvious to me through interaction with these people is that none of them are dead! Only the observer considers them so.
~ Unknown
They Take Turns Using a Word They Like "It's extraordinary," says one woman.
~ Lydia Davis
In those days, I wanted to cry, I wanted to shout, I wanted to wring my hands and complain, and I did try to complain to some people, though I could never cry or complain as much as I wanted to. Some people listened and tried to be helpful, but they could never listen long enough; the conversation always had to come to an end.
~ Lydia Davis
But near the end of the hour I was also telling him how face-to-face with another person I couldn't speak. There was always a wall.
~ Lydia Davis
The people of the town, though, remained strangers: I could not realize that I must be seeing some of them over and over again, it was as though each passed through only once, as though there were always new strangers coming here
~ Lydia Davis
He does not trust her: she will claim to be in a bad mood when she is not, and then require him to be kind to her.
~ Lydia Davis
Of course, any book, and any piece of writing, is already part of a cooperative. It is, in itself as printed on the page, incomplete. It requires a reader to complete it. But the reader may also misunderstand it, distort it in favor of another idea, forget large parts of it, misremember it, create something different in misremembering it, etc. All these responses are perfectly legitimate parts of the cooperative act.
~ Lydia Davis
Here is a woman I know coming up to me. She is very excited, but she is not an interesting woman. What excites her will not be interesting, it will simply not be interesting.
~ Lydia Davis
Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant. Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and ant. Ant advances along path. Ant halts, baffled. Ant back-tracks fast—straight at cat. Cat, alarmed, backs away. Man, standing, staring, laughs. Ant changes path again. Cat, calm again, watches again.
~ Lydia Davis