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In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- ↗


— Samuel McChord Crothers


#friendship #relating #experience

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. ↗


— Ursula K. Le Guin


#le-guin #souls #writing #art

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. ↗


— Hedy Lamarr


#boat #flying #i #interesting #interesting people

Si ce que tu as trouvé est fait de matière pure, cela ne pourrira jamais. Et tu pourras y revenir un jour. Si ce n’est qu’un instant de lumière, comme l’explosion d’une étoile, alors tu ne retrouveras rien à ton retour. Mais tu auras vu une explosion de lumière. Et cela seul aura déjà valu la peine d’être vécu. ↗


— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#letting-go #love #friendship

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship. ↗


— Julian Barnes


#dead-people #writing #friendship

Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses? ↗


— William Faulkner


#best-friends #friendship #friendship

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ↗


— Emily Dickinson


#immortality #letter-writing #letters #the-mind #friendship

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us. ↗


— Carson McCullers


#empathy #friendship #knowing #knowledge #meeting

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs. ↗


— George Lloyd


#big stuff #give #i #old #park

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands. ↗


— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright


#friendship #loss #sadness #friendship






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