On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Solitude is not the only possible parent of boredom: we sometimes find ourselves bored to death while we are with someone, a few people, or even many people.”
“Friendship is not something that you seek but something that finds you.”
“To millions of children, a condom is nothing but a balloon.”
“Some people hate being single so much that they are often the boyfriend or girlfriend of someone who they do not love.”
“In innumerable cases, the woman fell in love, not with the man, but with the lifestyle that came with being his girlfriend, wife, or mistress.”
“I, unlike the vast majority of people, do not find solitude intolerable. As a matter of fact, I enjoy solitude, so much so that there is no dead or living person whose company I preferred, would have preferred, or prefer over my own.”
“You can be a friend to someone who is to you not a friend.”
“Sometimes a woman offers a man friendship out of pity, as a consolation, or as a consolation prize, for his failure to make her want him, or at least agree to be in a relationship with him.”
“Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.”
“Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.”
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