“my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.”
Source: High Fidelity
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English novelist 1957Related quotes

“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”
Source: Short fiction, A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014), p. 258

“I don't give my phone number to strangers. It's Plaza 5048.”
to her future husband when he asked for her phone number after their first dance.[citation needed]

“Animals are my friends… and I don't eat my friends.”

“On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any.”
Source: Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas

“All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.”
Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 15

“I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart.”
Source: Comment during final illness, as recalled by his nephew George W. E. Russell in Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 24