The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
People feel that in this industry friendships are not for real, but that's not true. Otherwise, what is the point of being friends?
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.