Letter Quotes
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Ben Yagoda -
... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.
Emily Dickinson
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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 -
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 -
“Survival is a four letter word.”
Alexis De Veaux -
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal -
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Blaise Pascal -
The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter.
Esmeralda Santiago
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The Bible is God's love letter to us.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
Jane Austen -
Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter.
Beth Kephart -
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 -
The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
Abdelkebir Khatibi -
Upon receiving your Lordship's letter I am making the best of my way for Boston.
William Kidd
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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 -
Dear 2600: ...So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me out? This would be unnecessary since we checked you out before you subscribed. That's why we made sure you heard about us and followed the plan by subscribing. Writing this letter, however, was not part of the plan and we will be taking corrective action.
Eric Corley -
Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
Michelangelo -
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Emily Dickinson -
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 -
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa
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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 -
A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
Anthony Trollope -
Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.
Coco J. Ginger -
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