Quotes About Friendship

While I had been angry I had demoted him from Scott to Fitzgerald

Every man needs to speak to someone. Before we had faith and other foolishness. Now everyone needs to have someone with whom it can talk to plainly, because a man, in addition to his boldness he can have, feels very lonely.

Take it back. Sure. Anything. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that? No. Not that. About me going to hell. Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.

I was his tennis friend.

Pez –dijo en voz alta pero suavemente–, seguiré contigo hasta la muerte.

and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He

Good," said Johnny, smiling happily. "Now we are all good friends again. In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.

When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst.

Le garçon vit que le vieil homme respirait, puis il vit les mains du vieil homme et il se mit à pleurer. Il sortit très doucement pour aller chercher du café et pleura tout le long du chemin.

He worried about everyone and in the time when I first knew him he was most worried about T. S. Eliot who, Ezra told me, had to work in a bank in London and so had insufficient time and bad hours to function as a poet.

Un giorno chiesi alla padrona di un'altra bancarella, che era mia amica, se i proprietari vendessero mai i libri. -No- disse- E' tutta roba gettata via. Ecco perché si sa che non valgono niente. Gli amici se li scambiano per leggerli sulle navi. -Senza dubbio-disse-devono lasciarne parecchi sulle navi. -Sì-dissi-la compagnia di navigazione li conserva e li fa rilegare ed è così che si formano le biblioteche delle navi.

porque yo guardaba la boca callada cuando algo no me gustaba. Si a una persona le gustaban las pinturas o los escritos de sus amigos, yo lo miraba como algo parecido a lo de la gente que quiere a su familia, y es descortés criticársela. A veces, uno puede pasar mucho tiempo antes de tomar una actitud crítica ante su propia familia, la de sangre o la política.

Now I don't give a shit I lost him, David said. I don't care about the records. I just thought I did. I'm glad that he's all right and that I'm all right. We aren't enemies. I'm glad you told us, Thomas Hudson said. Thank you very much, Mr. Davis for what you said when I first lost him, David said with his eyes still shut. Thomas Hudson never knew what it was that Roger had said to him.

I'm sorry we haven't been friends. Everybody is friends when things are bad enough. I'm going to be friends from now on. We're all going to do a lot of things from now on, Thomas Hudson said. I wish from now on would start.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

There is no FRIEND as LOYAL as a BOOK!

His father had dealt so lightly with evil, giving it no chance ever and denying its importance so that it had no status and no shape nor dignity. He treated evil like an old entrusted friend, David thought, and evil, when she poxed him, never knew she'd scored. His father was not vulnerable he knew and, unlike most people he had known, only death could kill him.

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

There is no friend as long as a book

Bill was buying shoe-shines for Mike. Bootblacks opened the street door and each one Bill called over and started to work on Mike. This is the eleventh time my boots have been polished, Mike said. I say, Bill is an ass.

A kidder gets to be an awful thing around a camp if his stuff goes sort of sour.

that's hilaire belloc,' i said to my friend. 'ford was here this afternoon and cut him dead.' 'don't be a silly ass,' my friend said. 'that's aleister crowley, the diabolist. he's supposed to be the wickedest man in the world.' 'sorry,' i said.

wanted to be there to say good-bye to him. No matter what a person does, there ought to be somebody on his side at the last moment.

Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.