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Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pit...

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Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--...

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Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.

Who friendship with a knave hath made is judged a partner in the trade.

When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you s...

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Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even wh...

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There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets...

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their in...

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People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Jesus, why would he hook up with Becca?" "Well, she's not known for her personality or generosity of...

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Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks o...

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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really...

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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best fr...

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(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only perso...

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I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't reall...

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John Green (author)This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

I'd pick you, I say. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years wit...

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I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out...

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Because you're my friend, wingnut.

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your n...

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Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn ...

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Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan]...

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Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it...

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I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people ag...

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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines agai...

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...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understa...

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The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any mea...

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I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They...

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I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...

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Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That...

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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink ...

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Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

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John WoodenWooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion

Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll ...

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Jonathan StroudThe Creeping Shadow

There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that ...

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111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin b...

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from t...

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True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next fro...

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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his ...

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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

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Joseph Gordon-LevittThe Tiny Book of Tiny Stories

When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

...we so resented that asshole up there talking talking talking taking up the entire assembly expect...

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(...) I could "talk fast" -- that's to say, without hesitating, stammering -- most of the time -- bu...

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If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong,For he never goes a-travelling but he takes...

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Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have s...

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Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important th...

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Julia ChildMy Life in France

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would upda...

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But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...

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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask yo...

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I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to ...

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Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship poss...

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As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realize...

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That’s what I always wanted to know. Why would some fella be willing to do something generous for a ...

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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; ...

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Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling bu...

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I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. ...

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I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them ...

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...

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And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I...

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I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake o...

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You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're fri...

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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...

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You can always tell a real friend when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a...

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We would never go shopping together or eat an entire cake while we complained about men. He'd never ...

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I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting th...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.

The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said: "Who are...

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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formu...

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And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shoulde...

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Leonard CohenStranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in o...

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Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top r...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were...

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you...

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But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me wh...

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consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective,”...

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Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ...

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