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"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
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"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
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"There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with."
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"Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best."
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"However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird."
Poetry
"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
Minimalism
"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
Poetry
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
People
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
Help
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
Conversation
"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
Art
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