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If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

Amy Dickinson

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Amy Dickinson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 6
Columnist
Freeville
New York
Book
Good
Never
Bored
Alone
Women

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In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.
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People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.
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Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.
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You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.
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You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.
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Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
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Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.
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Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.
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There is true freedom in letting go.
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[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.
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I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.
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You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.
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There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.
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If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.
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If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.
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If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.
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Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.
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Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.
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Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.
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Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.
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