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"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."
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"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."
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"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
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"A friend is a favourable family."
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"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
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"A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better."
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"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
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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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"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
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"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
Friendship
"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
Peace
"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
Life
"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."
Reading
"People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."
Friendship
"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."
Love
"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars."
History
"Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth."
Aphorisms
"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."
Art
"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles."
Beginning
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