Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.
No arts, no letters - no society.
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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