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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- 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
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
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- 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
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- 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
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- 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
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
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
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
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
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
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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