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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have. Theodore White
Groucho Marx quote: "No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend."
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. Groucho Marx
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was. Philip Pullman
Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond. Sarah Vowell
I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything -- spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart. Louise Brooks
Confucius quote: "Have no friends not equal to yourself."
Have no friends not equal to yourself. Confucius
Henry B. Adams quote: "Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury..."
Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend. Henry B. Adams
Kurt Cobain quote: "Load up our guns. Bring your friends. It's fun to loseand to..."
Load up our guns. Bring your friends. It's fun to loseand to pretend Kurt Cobain
I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of thewhole of the rest of the earth, I dream'd that was the new city of Friends, Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest, It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words. Walt Whitman
A while back, my friend Graydon Carter mentioned that he was opening a restaurant in New York. I cautioned him against this, because it’s my theory that owning a restaurant is the kind of universal fantasy everyone ought to grow out of, sooner rather than later, or else you will be stuck with the restaurant. There are many problems that come with owning a restaurant, not the least of which is that you have to eat there all the time. Giving up the fantasy that you want to own a restaurant is... Nora Ephron
Katharine Hepburn quote: "What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a..."
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate. Katharine Hepburn
William Shakespeare quote: "I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul..."
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends William Shakespeare
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. Ayn Rand
Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away. Soren Kierkegaard
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors. Jonathan Franzen

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