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One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.

— Christopher Knight

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Polly Bergen

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

— Julian Casablancas

People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.

— Isabelle Fuhrman

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

— Ed Koch

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

— Donald Johanson

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

— John Cusack

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

✗Opposing Perspectives

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

— Lyle Lovett