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

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" I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all. "

" As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit. "

" One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship. "

" I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship. "

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

Henry David Thoreau

" The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? "

" She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

" The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. "

Charles de Lint

" I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. "

" He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. "

" The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. "

" Friendship is one mind in two bodies. "

" Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. "

" I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there. "

Stephen Pagliuca

" Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life. "

" They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. "

Henry Walter Bates

" A friend to all is a friend to none. "

" I criticized Nawaz Sharif's personal friendship with Modi, but my point has been that there should be good and friendly ties between India and Pakistan at state level. But friendship between these two leaders hasn't turned into a friendly relationship between the two states. "

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" There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship. "

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

Galina Vishnevskaya

" A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. "

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" We should have a good working friendship with the United States. "

" The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally. "

" 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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" I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two. "

" Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. "