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"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

"I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape."

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title."

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
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"Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better."

"I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature."

"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish."

"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction."

"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

"What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along."

"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."

"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."
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