Quotes About Friendship
Once a year the Hattifatteners collect there before setting out again on their endless foraging expedition round the world. They come from all points of the compass, silent and serious with their small, white empty faces, and why they hold this yearly meeting it is difficult to say, as they can neither hear nor speak, and have no object in life but the distant goal of their journey's end. Perhaps they like to have a place where they feel at home and can rest a little and meet friends.
~ Tove Jansson
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Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now." "Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!
~ Tove Jansson
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You're an idiot," Snufkin said. "Or still worse, you're a story spoiler.
~ Tove Jansson
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Neither one of the two friends felt any great need of talking. As yet. They had time; summer lay before them, long and full of promises.
~ Tove Jansson
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Oh say, where lies true lasting happiness? In evening rest? In friendly glance? 'Tis more: In sailing from the mire, the reeds, the mast, The mighty ocean's vastness to adore. Oh what is life? 'Tis nothing but a dream, A vast and enigmatic flowing stream. Such tender feelings fill my heaving breast I know not how or where they'll come to rest; My cares are multitudinous and sore, I long to feel the friendly rudder in my paw.
~ Tove Jansson
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Minun täytyy saada Kampsu ymmärtämään, hän ajatteli. Minun täytyy saada joku ymmärtämään, että pelkään, joku joka voi vastata ja sanoa, että tietenkin pelkäät, käsitän sen erinomaisen hyvin. Tai vaikkapa: Mutta hyvä ystävä, mitä pelättävää sinulla on? Näin kauniina, tyynenä kesäpäivänä? Kummin tahansa, mutta jotenkin.
~ Tove Jansson
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Clever of you, Hemul. But, on the other hand, think how lonely the Groke is because nobody likes her, and she hates everybody. The Contents is perhaps the only thing she has. Would you now take that away from her too -- lonely and rejected in the night?" Sniff became more and more affected and his voice trembled. "Cheated out of her only possession by Thingumy and Bob." He blew his nose and couldn't go on.
~ Tove Jansson
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Because we're going to stay here a little while and calm down until I've learned your names. Light my pipe, someone!
~ Tove Jansson
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Are you tired?" Wladyslaw asked. "Yes." "Then I won't say much more. Just one thing - and now, my friend, you must give me your complete attention. it is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that. No?
~ Tove Jansson
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Forget the past and all your fears. Think of the super fun That we can have. I'd love to see the beach, a shell, the sun. ... And Miffle knows, and Toffle knows, that both have seen the end Of fear and fright and long, dark night, now each has found a friend
~ Tove Jansson
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It can be sad having a friend you've admired too much and seen too rarely and told too many things that you should have kept to yourself.
~ Tove Jansson
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A great sadness gripped her. It can be sad having a friend you've admired too much and seen too rarely and told too many things that you should have kept to yourself.
~ Tove Jansson
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Somewhere on the other side of it all is Snufkin,' Moomintroll said to himself. 'He's sitting somewhere in the sun, peeling an orange. If I only knew that he knew that I'm climbing these mountains for his sake, then I could do it. But all alone I'll never manage it.
~ Tove Jansson
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I wish I was more Moomin-minded.
~ Tove Jansson
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Of course you have to feel free. Naturally you must go away. I do understand that you have to be alone sometimes. (Moomintroll to Snufkin)
~ Tove Jansson
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But Snufkin took out his mouth-organ and played his gayest adventure-song (not just-the-right-sized adventure, but a terrific one) about rescues and surprises and sunshine.
~ Tove Jansson
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The spring evenings had grown long, and it was hard to darken the room. They sat in their separate chairs and waited for Fassbinder, their silence a respectful preparation. They had waited this way for their meetings with Truffaut, Bergman, Visconti, Renoir, Wilder, and all the other honored guests that Jonna had chosen and enthroned–the finest present she could give her friend.
~ Tove Jansson
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Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.
~ Tove Jansson
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Even when he didn't know me, Lonnie was there to catch my falls.
~ Unknown
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Strangely enough, you'll find the less sex a person has, the less they masturbate. I have a close friend who assures me she has only masturbated five times in her life. Of course, there is the theory that she doesn't have a vagina. Then again, I know for a fact that most of her daily life, including her work, is wrapped up in fantasy. Leaving her eyes crystal clear.
~ Tracey Emin
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Somehow, when his duties had consisted of killing hostile Sioux and Cheyenne, Zane had been able to justify the situation. Those groups were warring against the wagon trains and refusing to follow government instructions. Many tribes saw the whites as an impossible threat, refusing to even try to get along. But the Blackfoot had been friendly. For the most part. Mountain
~ Tracie Peterson
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She turned and walked away, pausing only a moment at the door to glance over her shoulder. William wanted to think she was looking at him, but he figured she was probably more interested in his friend. William decided to let it drop. There was no telling what Miss Dandridge might be thinking.
~ Tracie Peterson
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I do think I'll put in a good word about Gillian with some of the ladies I know here in Town. She shouldn't be made to suffer just because you and I do not get along with her parents." Gabriel smiled. "You have far too tender a heart, my heart. Forever trying to help others. If only Gillian knew she has a new champion in you." "I shall know." Esme moved into his arms as the music began. "Sometimes just knowing is more than enough.
~ Unknown
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A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.
~ Tracy Hickman
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