My Sweet Moleskine

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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C. S. Lewis

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(Source: quote-book)

We are more different now than when we were kids, but that’s the way old friends work, I think. With new friends, what you have in common is more circumstantial: colleges, jobs, hobbies, acquaintances-of-the-hour. What old friends share goes deeper than that, Your lives can branch off in completely different directions, but always you share that knot of a past — heartbreaks and sleep overs and screened-in porches — and the raw, peculiar memory of yourself which, in part, belongs to them.

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Elise Juska (via suzywire) (via halynenakazawa)

Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

—Katharine Hepburn | Email submission by: Carley (via quote-book)

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that’s creativity.

—Charles Mingus (via jared) (via quote-book)

Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness in it.

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Jenna, Waitress

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

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Marilyn Monroe

When I was a child, my mother said to me, `If you become a soldier you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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Pablo Picasso