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• Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.

  Julia Child

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.16, Knopf

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• Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Men, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.353, Ballantine Books

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• Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my thoughts, have me for your companion, confidant, and information bureau? What do you take me for? Am I an entertainer on salary, required every evening to play an intellectual farce under your stupid noses? Am I a slave, bought and paid for, to crawl on my belly in front of you idlers and lay at your feet all that I do and all that I know?

  Henry Miller

  Stupid, Play, Feet

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• In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wings, Age, Evening

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• You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Silence, Holmes, Watson

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• It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ambition, Soul, Eternity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

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• True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Love, Marriage, Romance

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• . . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Childhood, Mind, Miserable

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.232, Powell Publications, LLC

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• What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Girl, Might

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

  Linda Sue Park

  Pride, Foolishness

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “A single shard”

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• The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Struggle, Past, Thank God

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• I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Tears, Poetic, Tropes

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Tablets, Harvest

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.89, Penguin

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• and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Leaving, World

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

  Sidney Poitier

  Home, Character, Journey

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• We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Prayer, Struggle, Night

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• There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Night, Dwarves

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

  Richard Baxter

  Wise, Library, Helping

  Richard Baxter (1656). “The Reformed Pastor, Showing the Nature of the Pastoral Work ... Reprinted from the Edition of 1656, with an Appendix Afterwards Added”, p.88

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• You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Book, Artist

  "The Mistakes in This Essay Are My Own" by John Maxwell Hamilton, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 1990.

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• Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Reading, Home

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• Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Book, Writing

  Sir Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The gathering storm”, Houghton Mifflin Company

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• Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sleep, Night, Ribs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Dog, Animal, Thinking

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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