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"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"No nation has friends only interests."
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
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"When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever."
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"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
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"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory."
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"Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach."
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"Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario."
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"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
Reading
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
Help
"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
Art
"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
People
"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
Poetry
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
Poetry
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
People
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
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