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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. We...more

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That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

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Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anythin...more

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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

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God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

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Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, t...more

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Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.