A Quote by Anne Roiphe
I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.
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Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
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I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!
If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.
He knows what I'm about to say--he always does. He is my best friend, my soul mate. In a perfect world, full of roses and sunshine we'd be together, but this is full of broken.
My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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I am a perfect being in a perfect world.
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