"I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp."
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"Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."
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"I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends."
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"I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((())))."
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"Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known."
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"Treat each person as you would an old friend."
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"I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor]."
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"It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends."
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"So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me."
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"For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon."
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"And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life."
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"It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."
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"In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right."
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"Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions."
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"An old friend is a new house."
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"Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend."
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"How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs."
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"I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends."
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