Friends don’t get upset at you if you cry…
Some friends are silent; others forgive, and help, a little; and some infinitely help us…
Books are like simple friends that give messages. Good books are part of literature, which, like music, schools, science, government and religion, are institutions we depend too heavily upon.
People are more complex friends who do more than just give information. They touch, judge, and help, a little, intellectually, physically, and, less frequently, spiritually, but not as well as perfect friends.
Perfect friends can do all of the above and more: they fix perfectly and permanently.
I’d rather have a perfect friend than a simple or complex friend any day. With a perfect friend I can handle all the simple and complex friends that come my way.
The book I cried over is Booth Tarkington’s Pulitizer Prize-winning “The Magnificent Ambersons”. It’s about honor, responsibility, and love. The book is better than the movie-version, by Orson Welles and company, which was, ironically (since this article’s about friends), sabotaged by enemies.
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