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" I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me. "

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

" The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. "

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" There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. "

" A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor. "

" My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos. "

" 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. "

" Friendship is a sheltering tree. "

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" Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship. "

" Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? "

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

" A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. "

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" Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. "

" I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money. "

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

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" Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. "

" I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. "

" One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. "

" My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. "

" The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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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. "

" We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either. "

" 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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" Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. "

" Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. "

" When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. "

" I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it. "

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" I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't. "

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" Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book. "