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" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "
Alice Walker
Silence
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" I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. "
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" A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships. "
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" Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. "
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" The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. "
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" One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. "
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" It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance. "
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" She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. "
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" I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. "
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" Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. "
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" I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision. "
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" Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life. "
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" Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. "
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" Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. "
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" Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys. "
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" My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start. "
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