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She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

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If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend!

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in ...

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Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.

I've been scraping little shavings off my ration of lightAnd I've formed it into a ball, and each ti...

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It's not your job to like me - it's mine

There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it...

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one o...

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Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go...

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The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...

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We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our cont...

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Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has so...

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendshi...

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C. S. LewisThat Hideous Strength

But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has bee...

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Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude o...

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For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes ...

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In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself ...

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I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no sh...

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When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, ...

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C. S. LewisThe Four Loves

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...

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C. S. LewisThe Four Loves

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they ha...

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Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...

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Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration ...

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Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...

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At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or ...

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Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of ...

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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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C. S. LewisThe Four Loves

In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates o...

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Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...

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C. S. LewisThe Four Loves

The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT ...

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one ...

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The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...

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But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies ha...

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The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but t...

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But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few year...

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The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where th...

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The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. W...

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C. S. LewisThe Pilgrim's Regress

Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiousl...

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Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood ...

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for m...

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In the end, it's only a story of having had her words and secrets, her confidences, turned against h...

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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of...

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I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe no...

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People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you ...

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They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

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Cassandra ClareCity of Heavenly Fire

Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

I wish I had a parabatai," Emma said. "It's like someone who's your family, but because they want to...

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Shapes began to appear in the mist as it thickened. Clary saw herself and Simon as children, holding...

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Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. I...

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Jem gave her a wistful look. “Must you go? I was rather hoping that you’d stay and be a ministering ...

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You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth ...

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I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead...

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He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it."Will let his ...

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All my life, since I came to the institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in ...

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Hello, companion," said Magnus.The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss."I begin t...

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I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of year...

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Cassandra ClareThe Last Stand of the New York Institute

Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acqui...

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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never giv...

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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. ...

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Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looke...

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I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat ar...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite...

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Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man...

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people evoked as it is by m...

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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...

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Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly th...

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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The f...

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You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of ...

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather tha...

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He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. ...

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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese...

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An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...

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Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...

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Charlotte BrontëThe Letters of Charlotte Brontë

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...

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I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

I can trust my friends. ... These people force me to examine myself encourage me to grow.

I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''Tha...

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Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a w...

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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I w...

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I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb ...

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What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us w...

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There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old frien...

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A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

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Christopher HitchensUnacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between peop...

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