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" A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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" We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. "

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" But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. "

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" The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn't the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all. "

" Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. "

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" It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around. "

" I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man. "

" Friendship is Love without his wings! "

" There are lots of things going on for teenagers, with exam stress, changing friendship groups, becoming independent, and all those hormone changes affecting you. "

" I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends. "

" There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time. "

" It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. "

" When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script. "

" A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. "

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" I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction. "

" To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. "

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" There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. "

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" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "

" I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people. "

" I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all. "

" There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something. "

" Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat. "

" You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation. "

" I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side. "

" I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. "

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" The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. "

William Hazlitt