Letters Quotes
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We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.
Michael Winter
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A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.
P. D. James
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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
George Bernard Shaw
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Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.
Ajahn Chah
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Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.
Eric Gill
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Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
Bob Garfield
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Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.
Lewis Carroll
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I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
Emily Yoffe
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Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
Albert Einstein
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Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
Hermann Hesse
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This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.
Elizabeth Scott
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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.
Virginia Woolf
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There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Eric Gill
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I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.
Rebecca Stead
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I'd find myself leading girls on when I didn't realize I was doing it. I try to distingush between groupies and a genuine fan that just wants to get to know you better. But sometimes I'd really f*ck up. I'd think I was on to a fan that just wanted to talk. Then I'd find out she's trying to ring me up in the next city and writing letters.
Rick Savage
Def Leppard
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There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.
Donald Miller
