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There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. ↗

— Irving Stone

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The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what sooner or later the would have to say. The first twenty minutes were tragic in tone, with the word fate used ten times and the word friendship twenty-four times. Liz Norton's name was spoken fifty times, nine of them in vain. The word Paris was said seven times, Madrid, eight. The word love was spoken twice, once by each man. The word horror was spoken six times and the word happiness once (by Espinoza). The word solution was said twelve times. The word solipsism seven times. The world euphemism ten times. The word category, in the singular and the plural, nine times. The word structuralism once (Pelletier). The term American literature three times. The words dinner or eating or breakfast or sandwich nineteen times. The words eyes or hands or hair fourteen times. The the conversation proceeded more smoothly. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. ↗

— William Glasser

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The best time to make friends is before you need them. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch? ↗

— A.A. Milne

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

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