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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.


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For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.
John Banville
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
Mary Doria Russell
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Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
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Because I'm shooting 'The New Normal' and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I'm extremely tired.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.


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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.


Bernie Taupin
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.


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I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.


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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.


Richard Lugar
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
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I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.


Charles A. Lockwood
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I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.
Martin Shkreli
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I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte
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