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title: "1 Friendship Born Quotes By Steve Tesich"
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> [No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/no-birth-certificate-is-issued-when-friendship-is-born-there-is/)

Steve Tesich

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## More by Steve Tesich

> [No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/no-birth-certificate-is-issued-when-friendship-is-born-there-is/)

Steve Tesich

> [Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/life-it-seems-is-not-meaningless-but-rather-so-full-of-meaning-that/)

Steve Tesich

> [What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/what-i-loved-about-bike-racing-was-that-it-was-not-a-mainstream-sport/)

Steve Tesich

> [So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/so-i-made-an-outline-well-you-know-days-are-going-by-and-i-am-not/)

Steve Tesich

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