Quotes with book-friends

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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Mark Twain You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your friends.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jane Austen You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • W. H. Auden You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Joseph Conrad You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Michael Cunningham You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
    Source: De uren (1998)
    Michael Cunningham
    American novelist and screenwriter (1952 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
    Source: Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ernest Hemingway You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Richard Bach Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Aristophanes Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Italo Calvino A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Beggar: One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
    Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Jacques Delille Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
    Jacques Delille
    French author (1738 - 1813)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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