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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. "

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" A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. "

" Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. "

" I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda. "

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" When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me. "

" A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. "

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

" I take friendship very seriously. "

" Opposition is true friendship. "

" 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. "

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

" My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship. "

" The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff. "

" Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. "

" Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. "

" The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. "

Samuel Johnson

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

" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "

" 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. "

" What's quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it's born out of genuine friendship. And nobody's infringing on anybody's space. "

" Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different. "

" 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? "

" It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. "

" Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. "

" In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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" No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. "

" Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. "

" 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. "

" Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate. "

" 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. "