Envelopes Quotes - Page 9

• I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it.

  Jess Walter

  Self, Years, Rejection

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• Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.922, GENERAL PRESS

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• Deep down inside we know that the best gifts don't come from catalogs or shopping malls. They don't come in brightly-colored packages or fancy envelopes and they're not sitting under a tree somewhere... The best gifts come from the heart. They come when we look at each other, REALLY look at each other and say 'You mean a lot to me' or 'I'm so glad you're a part of my life.' A gift like that will never go out of style or be forgotten or be returned for a different size. A gift like that can change the world.

  Ron Atchison

  Mean, Heart, Shopping

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• I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Space, Ego

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• A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Mirrors, Screens

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.113, Image

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• If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

  Henry James

  Reading, Epic, Reputation

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.42, 谷月社

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