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" Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. "

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" True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. "

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" I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction. "

" All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. "

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" Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. "

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" My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of. "

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" Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. "

" Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. "

" Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself. "

" As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I could live with someone that I didn't have an intellectual friendship with. "

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" True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. "

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