Letter Quotes
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Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.
Bernard Bailyn
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I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.
Bill Clinton
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And when he saw the letter, her first letter, the first bit of her handwriting, by his plate at breakfast, he seized it so quickly and turned so red that Lewes was painfully clear as to who had written it. Poor Chris. Cumfrit. Clutches….
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
Lewis Carroll
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For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Blaise Pascal
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Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
Catherine the Great
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Ben Yagoda
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Theron had in fact written to Sophia, but his sister had not sent the letter. She did not think it would reassure his mother to be invited to witness the ceremony of his union with his wizard and lover, on the steps of the Great Hall, at the Festival of the Spring Sowing.
Ellen Kushner
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The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.
Esmeralda Santiago
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
Abdelkebir Khatibi
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“Survival is a four letter word.”
Alexis De Veaux
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Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter.
Beth Kephart
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Upon receiving your Lordship's letter I am making the best of my way for Boston.
William Kidd
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I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
Paul Fleischman
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A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
Anthony Trollope
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Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
Michelangelo
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You always try and make a film that is a letter that will be read and we are so glad that it is being read by the right people in the right place and is inspiring change. It is also gratifying that the survivors are finding it healing and transformative. That's been really great.
Amy Ziering
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The Bible is God's love letter to us.
Soren Kierkegaard
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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Emily Dickinson
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How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?
Elena Ferrante
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I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!
Geraldine Jewsbury
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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa