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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
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"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."

"Unfailing friends are essential, when 'presence' and 'absence' are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend)."

"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."

"Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up."

"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."

"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."

"Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face."

"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."
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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."

"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."

"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."

"The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it."
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