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"There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor."

"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."

"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."

"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory."

"Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time."Pfft, Levi said, "I'm picking out my own dress."

"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."

"Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship."

"Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States."
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"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
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