There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another.… - Vivian Gornick

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There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another. In the first category one clears the decks to be together; in the second one looks for an empty space in the schedule.

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About Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935) is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist.

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