"Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of...
I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.
~ Haruki Murakami ~
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I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.
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