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Friendship Quotes
"I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends."
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"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
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"Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism."
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"It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends."
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"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
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"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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"If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay."
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"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."
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"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."
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"Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher."
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"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
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"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
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"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."
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"As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless."
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"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college."
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"I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty."
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
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"Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity."
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"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
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"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
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"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
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"When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to."
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"When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion."
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"Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years."
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"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."
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"I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues."
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"I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry."
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"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship."
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"It's like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that's fine.If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake.But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that's not very cool. It's not just selfish, it's kinda sick and unhealthy."
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"I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."
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"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
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"I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal."
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"Time should make enemies and Life should make friends."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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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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"He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't have anyone to be your 2 a.m. Which would kind of suck. I just looked at him as he stirred his soup, carrots spinning in the liquid. "Your what?" "Two a.m." He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's, like, the highest level of friendship."
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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
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"You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be."
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"Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman."
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"I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them."
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"Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light."
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"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
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"At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation."
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"Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough."
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"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
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"There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention."
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"We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world."
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"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."
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"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."
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