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"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"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."

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

"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."

"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."
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"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."

"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
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