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"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."
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"When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever."
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"A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs."
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"With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend."
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"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
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"I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends."
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"A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked."
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"And say my glory was I had such friends."
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"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."
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"Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you."
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"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
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"When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever."
Life
"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."
Friendship
"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down."
Thought
"If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them."
Connection
"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."
Friendship
"There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?"
Time
"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
Performance
"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened."
People
"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma."
Family
"I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time."
Time
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