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"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."
Edna O'Brien
"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."
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"Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs."
George Chapman
"Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs."
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"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
"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."
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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
Hilaire Belloc
"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
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"Friends are born, not made."
Henry B. Adams
"Friends are born, not made."
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"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."
Henry Home
"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."
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"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
Tom Waits
"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
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"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
Chanakya
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
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"Just a few questions for you, Mr. Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we've become friends in these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?"
Derek Landy
"Just a few questions for you, Mr. Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we've become friends in these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?"
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"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
Ben Okri
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
Marlene Dietrich
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
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"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
Wilson Mizner
"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
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"I have hardly any friends who aren't gay."
Tracey Emin
"I have hardly any friends who aren't gay."
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"Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training."
Michelle Kwan
"Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training."
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"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
Truman Capote
"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
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"On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends."
John Gay
"On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends."
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"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now."
Simon Pegg
"Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now."
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"Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy."
Napolean Hill
"Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy."
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"You win the victory when you yield to friends."
Sophocles
"You win the victory when you yield to friends."
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
Confucius
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
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"The only friend you can ever have that understands you better than anyone else is you."
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
"The only friend you can ever have that understands you better than anyone else is you."
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"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."
Helen Keller
"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."
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"Friends can create our most cherished memories."
Fennel Hudson
"Friends can create our most cherished memories."
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"In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend."
Anne Sophie Swetchine
"In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend."
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"Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it."
Wally Schirra
"Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it."
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"That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."
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"Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
Sylvia Plath
"Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
Richard Bach
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
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"But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right."
Ernie Banks
"But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right."
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
Henry David Thoreau
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
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"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."
Donald Trump
"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."
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"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"
William Hazlitt
"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"
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"Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves."
Maggie Stiefvater
"Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves."
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"A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower."
Marion Zimmer Bradley
"A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower."
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"Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him."
Paula Abdul
"Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him."
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"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."
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"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."
William Dean Howells
"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."
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"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
Thomas Malthus
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
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"I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing."
Chris Burke
"I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing."
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"The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental."
Fred Saberhagen
"The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental."
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"I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing."
Rowan Atkinson
"I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing."
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"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."
Salma Hayek
"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."
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"I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends."
Jack Osbourne
"I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends."
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"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."
Joe E. Lewis
"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."
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"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
George Byron
"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
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"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
Mencius
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
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"I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands."
Cher
"I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands."
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
Honore de Balzac
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
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"Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure."
Nick Clooney
"Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure."
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