“Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.”

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British Indian novelist and essayist 1947

Lucky Gupta (1998) Internet celebrity

2019

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

Jay McInerney (1955) American writer

Source: The Last of the Savages

“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.”

Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) American scouting pioneer

“I've always been a Democrat, it runs in my family.”

Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990) American jazz singer

Interview, The Washington Post, 1964

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Every relationship is transactional, whether it is a business relationship, a romantic relationship, a political relationship, a friendship, or a familial relationship.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualities that we most admire.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship

“Work, spirituality, family, friendships, health--you can't ignore any of them or it'll get you in the end.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 15, p. 268
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

“Goethe, whose letters I've been reading very intensively during the past few weeks, is always stressing Verträglichkeit - agreeing to live and let live - as the most important element of friendship: we shouldn't try to change people, but simply let them be as they are, making the best of even partial concord, instead of trying to force a fictitious perfect harmony.”

Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) Austrian writer and noble

Broken Lights p. 82 Diaries 1951-1952

“Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.”

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