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" I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite. "

Michael Dirda

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" Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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" Pak-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than ocean, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel. "

" The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger. "

" Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. "

" True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. "

" Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. "

" The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time. "

" When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship. "

Marlo Thomas

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Mom

" Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. "

" I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. "

" Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. "

" If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes. "

" Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. "

" Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't. "

" People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America. "

" Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself - of poems and stories and essays - delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters. "

Michael Dirda

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Come And Go

" I've come, even as a feminist, to dread the phrase 'female friendship,' because it tends to signal overdetermined relationships. "

" If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. "

" I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry. "

" A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. "

" The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that? "

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Morning

" Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? "

" Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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" Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them. "

" When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back. "

Emily Bett Rickards

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Friendship

" I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. "

" Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party. "

" The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. "