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Quotes from The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir — Vivian Gornick

born 1935 United States

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The exchange will always deepen, even if the friendship does not.

The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir (2015)

There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another. In the first category one clears the decks to be together; in the second one looks for an empty space in the schedule.

The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir (2015)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vivian Gornick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.