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"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
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"True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks."
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"To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony."
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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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"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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"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times."
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"Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I'm only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one lunch period away from eating alone in the bathroom. I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision."
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"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."
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"If you fulfill God's will, then God will always be your friend."
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"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
Life
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
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"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."
Knowledge
"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
Books
"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."
Reading
"Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing."
Uncertainty
"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."
Want
"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."
People
"For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them."
Family
"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."
Life
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