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Catherine Drinker Bowen

"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."

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"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."

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Amber Hurdle

"A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together!"

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."

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Amber Hurdle

"Life's gonna kick you in the butt. That's what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn't in life?"

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Amber Hurdle

"All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind."

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Amber Hurdle

"A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth."

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Amber Hurdle

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Will the reader turn the page?"

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