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"You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them."
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"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times."
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"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."
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"Friendship is a gift forever;Cherish everyday, forget it never"
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"Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time."
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"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
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"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."
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"The best gift that we can give to our friends is true love and sincere appreciation."
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"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
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"A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human."
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"Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is."
Writing
"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
Enemy
"A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?"
Worship
"Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us."
Gender
"Keep passing the open windows."
Mindfulness
"(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it, it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action."
Sports
"People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness."
Humanity
"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
Writing
"That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up."
Writing
"And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence?"
Ethics
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