Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and the Gap and the Old Man, railing about newfangled players and spicy food. Bringing me face-to-face early with death...
The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Alexander Sebastian: An old friend is never an extra guest.
THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes...
When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.
Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
I gather we're old friends." "By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.
Old mistakes need more friends than new truths.
I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
