Stephen King
Author
"No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart."
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Bad Friend
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Muhammad
Religious Leader
"A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
Plato
Philosopher
"Better a good enemy than a bad friend."
Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life."
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"I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present.""
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"I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends."
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