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Friendship Quote by Marilyn Hacker

“You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.” quote by Marilyn Hacker — Download Open image

“You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.”

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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