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"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
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"A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days."
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"True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks."
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"You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find."
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"To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony."
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"Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.''Not to me,' said Frodo. 'To me it feels more like falling asleep again."
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"A true friend is a reflection of yourself."
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"Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session."
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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
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"I to myself am dearer than a friend."
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"One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine."
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"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
Exploration
"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
Exploration
"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
Learning
"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
Imagination
"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
Animals
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
Marriage
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Lie
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
Marriage
"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
Friendship
"It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country."
Family
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