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

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" I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems? "

" The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers. "

Lawrence Osborne

" Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. "

Charles Dickens

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

Jonathan Franzen

" It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. "

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" Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task. "

" Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. "

" I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you. "

" I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct. "

" Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. "

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" But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right. "

" What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship. "

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" Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. "

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

Eustace Budgell

" Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. "

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

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. "

" When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other. "

Jennifer Chiaverini

" False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. "

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" And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future. "

Aleksander Kwasniewski

" Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. "

" Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life. "

" Dealing with LeBron is like a friendship. Coaching, but he understands that I am the boss, and I am going to call the shots, and he is fine with that. "

" Your friend is your needs answered. "

" An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. "

" Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting. "

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" Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit. "

" So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. "