Quote by Paul Theroux
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. Its also about mutual help, not about exploitation. – Paul Theroux

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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldnt say that Im a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux

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Travel
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Its only when youre alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources. – Paul Theroux

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alone
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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didnt make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didnt make a phone call. So for six years I didnt make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. – Paul Theroux

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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. – Saint Francis de Sales

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. – Edith Wharton

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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