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Friendship Quotes
"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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"Oh, thank the gods. Now I can talk to someone about clothes without being asked how so-and-so would approve of it, or gobble down a box of chocolates without someone telling me I'd better watch my figure-tell me you like chocolates. You do, right? I remember stealing a box from your room once when you were out killing someone. They were delicious. Aelin waved a hand toward the boxes of goodies on the table. "You brought chocolate-as far as I'm concerned, you're my new favorite person."
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"Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something."
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
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"You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime."
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"The actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday."
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"Back-to-back", Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders pressed against the middle of his back."I should be friends with taller people," Grimm panted."Bite your tongue, old boy, or I'll hack apart your ankles."
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"Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty."
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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
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"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept."
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"I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you."
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"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
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"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
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"We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, "I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed."
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"Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling."That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!"
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"A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth."
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"A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear."
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"If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, "The Gods are to each other not unknown."Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise."
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"Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends."
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"Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended."
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"I showed him the Post-it. "You see They're from Lily."Who's Lily?"Some girl."Ooh... a girl!"Boomer, we're not in third grade anymore. You don't say, 'Ooh... a girl!'"What? You fucking her?"Okay, Boomer, you're right. I liked 'Ooh... a girl!' much more than that. Let's stick with 'Ooh... a girl!"
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"Surround yourself with people who put a smile on your face and make you laugh."
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"Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies."
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"Sometimes there are stormy moments in your life when your friends do more than just walk with you, they become angels that carry you and protect you with their wings."
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"All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper, we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves."
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"True friendship is the best gift in life."
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"As much as I hated to admit it, I kind of looked forward to seeing him. It made no sense, but something about his infuriating nature made me forget about my other worries. Weirdly, I felt like I could relax around him."
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"Friends hurt friends. They don't mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love."
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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
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"I'd pick you, I say. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years with your dud and your adopted kids and I want our fucking kids to hang out and I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you."
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"I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there."
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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
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"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose."
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"Commander Tool Belt" Jason said."Bad Boy Supreme" Piper said."Chef Leo the Tofu Taco Expert."They laughed and told stories about Leo valdez, their best friend. They stayed on the roof until dawn rose, and Piper started to believe they could have a fresh start. It might even be possible to tell a new story in which Leo was still out there.Somewhere..."
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"Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation."
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"Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie."
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"Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, trimmed bushes, squirreled trees, no one losing, both winning, thus saving their friendship for other times of loss."
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"Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite."
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"Brod was a brilliant intellectual with exceptional energy; a generous man willing to do battle for others; his attachment to Kafka was warm and disinterested. The only problem was his artistic orientation: a man of ideas, he knew nothing of the passion for form; his novels (he wrote twenty of them) are sadly conventional; and above all: he understood nothing at all about modern art.Why, despite all this, was Kafka so fond of him? What about you-do you stop being fond of your best friend because he has a compulsion to write bad verse?"
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"I like your glasses, he said. "I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don't smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me... Cather."
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"If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends."
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"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
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"A true friend is a reflection of yourself."
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"You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with."
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"I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."
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"My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!"
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