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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
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Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong 
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
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