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"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."
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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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"Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost."
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."
"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"
"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."
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