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...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

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I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.

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Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

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Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.

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Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

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...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

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This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories...more

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Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

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Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

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You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.

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When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

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you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.