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"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."

"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."

"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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"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."

"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."

"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money."
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