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The power of letters is immeasurable. Use them with care". By Kyoka Izumi Immeasurable Power Letters Care

I've glued the letter directly into my diary, as it's so staggeringly imbecilic that any attempt to summarize its contents would make my brain leak out through my ears. By Tim Collins Diary Ears Glued Letter Directly

I get a lot of letters from people. By George Osborne People Lot Letters

An inspired letter can be as riveting as a stare. It can move us to tears, spur us to action, provoke us, uplift us, touch us. Transform us. When written from the heart, letters are dreams on paper, wishes fulfilled, desires satisfied. letters can be powerful. By Alexandra Stoddard Stare Inspired Riveting Letters Tears

The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written. By David Burnett Letters Experiencing Written Loss Today

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. By Paul Strisik Typewriter Pencil Crayon Write Letter

Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), there shall be no check to my genius from beginning to end. By Jane Austen Expect Letter Subject End Agreeable

I'm lucky if I write a letter. By Jennifer Aniston Letter Lucky Write

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes. By Lois Wyse Letters Minutes Remind Write Bring

May all your letters be received with an abundance of love. By Beth Wiseman Love Letters Received Abundance

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. By Jane Austen Deserve Longer Letter Unhappy Fate

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. By Blaise Pascal Usual Shorter Made Letter Longer

Never write a letter and never destroy one. By Cardinal Richelieu Write Letter Destroy

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way. By Katherine Mansfield Letters Existence Real Curse Hate

I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead. By Mark Twain Letter Time Write Short Writing

A letter is the portrait of the soul ... By Josephine De Beauharnais Soul Letter Portrait

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me By Emily Dickinson Letter World Wrote

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give. By Anthony Trollope Give Pleasant Letter Hold Pleasantest

She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper By Travel Schedule Paper Wrote Long Letter Short

Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close. By Robert Benchley Talk Close Personal Correspondence Today

Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses. By Marcus Tullius Cicero Times Places Life Youth Age

A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week. By Sylvia Townsend Warner Story Written Window Eyes Subject

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine! By Susan Lendroth Devine Human Letter Write Receive

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion. By Giambattista Bodoni Discomfort Pain Delight Haste Diligence

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear. By Isidore Of Seville Words Letters Things Symbols Absent

The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed. By Ashton Kutcher Power Handwritten Letter Greater Personal

A letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality. By Vita Sackville-West Region Letter Arrival Defrauds Existence

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. By P.d. James Revelations Letter Paradoxically Revealing Deceptive

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular) By Dorothy L. Sayers Singular Vulgar Careful Avoidance Beginning

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray? By Henry David Thoreau Letterwriting Facts Truths Planet Compared

Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter. By Beth Kephart Language Letter Lone

Oh no, honey, I can't read little things like letters. I read big things like men. By Sojourner Truth Honey Letters Things Read Men

As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my books Generally, I don't write letters at all ... Writing, for me, is work, and I do not like to do my work carelessly, but if I waited until I got a letter into the shape I'd be happy with, you would never hear another word from me and would think I had perished on a mountain ... By Janet Malcolm Generally Word Gathered Letters Doubt

Why send a letter when you can send something truly magnificent? By Cassandra Clare Magnificent Send Letter

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give. By Joseph Epstein Drawback Letters Order Send Mail

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. By Joshua Chamberlain Letter Pretend Write Writing Circumstances

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. By John Steinbeck Tool Owed Letter Long Timebut

Writing this letter is like putting a note in a bottleAnd hopingIt will reach Japan. By Alice Munro Japan Writing Letter Putting Note

Real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another. By Agnes Repplier Real Letterwriting Founded Young Humanity

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan. By Fennel Hudson Letter Mood Collect Thoughts Plan

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans ... By Anne Sexton Lovingly Lovable Letter Matter Quickly

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system. By John Dos Passos Letters System Largely Written Things

It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty ... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich Day Pleasant Letter Found Pleasanter

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. By Elizabeth Mcgovern Letters Writing Receiving Correspondence Shame

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. By Haruki Murakami Generally People Letters Good Writing

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter. By Judith Martin Email Glance Letter Give Attention

Never write a letter while you are angry. By Jimi Hendrix Angry Write Letter

For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting on desks and dressers, slipped into purses, abandoned in email Draft folders, forever sealed and unsent. Shredded. Forgotten, sometimes intentionally. And the wrong letters, placed in someone else's hands - which, once delivered, may never be taken back. Emailed and immediately regretted. By Avi Steinberg Letters Days Imagining Fate World

Upon finding the letter, I had one of those out of body experiences that come only after poring over archival material for nine hours straight, most of it dull as dust, but then something like this appears and you look around at the two or three other glaze-eyed researchers and want to go around the room and give everyone a high-five, but instead you just get up and quietly go to the water fountain, then make a notation for photocopy, and crack the next folder. By Jay Kirk Letter Straight Dust Highfive Fountain

letters can be dangerous, especially when they are exchanged between lovers who are separated. At first they'll exchange every three days...then once a week, then every two weeks...Eventually they don't even exchange a letter once a month...and then at some point their hearts are separated...it happens all the tine. By Tsukasa Hojo Separated Dangerous Eventually Exchanged Lovers

It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances. By Mary Lamb Friend Letter Remembrances Talking Lodge

For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known. By Kate Morton Reader Words Light Letter Seek

Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady. By Louisa May Alcott Laurence Lady Letter

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. By Pico Iyer Writing End Anomalies Stranger Oddest

Successful people, no matter how busy, seem to make time to write letters. By Mark Demoss Successful People Busy Letters Matter

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music By Abdelkebir Khatibi Music Letter Calligraphic Sits Writing

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all. By Josephine Tey Letters People Interest Life Writing

Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters. By Agnes Repplier Writing Assume Humanity Declined Lack

When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice. By Vivian Gornick Letters Hour Life World Writing

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers. By David Letterman Mail Letters Email Prefer Conventional

I'm imagining your response as you read this letter - which by then will have spent a week or two sitting in this lagoon, then another month riding the chaos of the Italian mail system, before finally crossing the Atlantic and being passed over to the US Post Office, who will have transferred it into a sack to be pushed along in a cart by a mailman who'll have slugged through rain or snow in order to slip it through your mail slot where it will have dropped to the floor, to wait for you to find it. By Nicole Krauss Office Mail Italian Atlantic Post

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them. By Ruth Rendell Letters Awful Lot Answer

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer's personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper. By Emily Post Carpet Paper Letter Love Receive

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. By Agnes Repplier Letters Literature Charming Occasional Retreat

I lost the letter in rather embarrassing circumstances. We were to dine at Parramatta Government House that same evening, and Peter had come in early from harvesting the wheat, sitting down in all his dirt to read the precious missive. I sat beside him, fresh from my bath. And so handsome did my husband look, long legs sprawled in Dungaree trousers and frowning over my father's spiky hand, that I could not resist reaching out to smooth away the frown. He caught my hand to his lips, still reading, and then chancing to look up, and reading my face more swiftly than he would ever read the written word, pulled me onto his lap. By Jennifer Paynter Circumstances Lost Letter Embarrassing Read

We appreciate your coming to us with a copy of your letter to your sister, but it was unnecessary. Your offense was known to us even before the letter's receipt by your sister. Effective as of September 15 the primary responsibility of our isle's new assistant chief postal inspector has been to scan all post for use of illegal letters of the alphabet, then to make nightly reports to the Council. A report has been put on file on your behalf, your official sentence to be forthwith in issuance. By Mark Dunn Sister Unnecessary Letter Coming Copy

It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. But I am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest. By Harriet Martineau America Grace Letters Frankness Kind

Please forgive the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one. By Blaise Pascal Letter Forgive Long Time Write

Your letter filled the hole in my day like a key.Turn it. By Bill Callahan Letter Filled Hole Day Keyturn

A letter is the most basic - yet the most flexible - mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter. By Scribendi Basic Flexible Mode Correspondence Matter

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee. By Amity Gaige Letters Love Writing Person Addressee

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection. By Thomas Jefferson Bible Letters Long Short Affection

...but for the Girl Writing A Letter these things don't matter, she's got a beer in her free hand, she's on the road, she's real and she's in love. By William Carpenter Girl Writing Letter Matter Hand

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt. By Faina Ranevskaya Spelling Shirt Mistakes Letter Bug

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. By Mark Twain Letter Time Write Short Wrote

Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter?" demanded Lady Buxted indignantly. "Your secretary?""I employ him to read my letters," explained his lordship.(Alverstroke)"Not those written by your nearest and dearest!""Oh, no, not them!" he agreed. By Georgette Heyer Trevor Lady Buxted Alverstroke Demanded

I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Long Letter Shorter Time Make

I folded the letter and carefully placed it back in its spot. Now I had to wait twenty-four hours for a response. This was so much less gratifying than texting. By Kasie West Spot Folded Letter Carefully Back

This letter has gotten foolish, and I think you know how I detest looking like a fool. But still I do. For you. By Kiera Cass Foolish Fool Letter Detest

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark ... I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay. By Jean-Dominique Bauby Sunday Small Time Roses Dusk

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ... By Dorothy Osborne Methinks Letters Discourse Studied Oration

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it. By I.l. Peretz Letter Depends Read Melody Sing

Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about. By Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Perfectly Business Letter Deserve Paper

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. By Katherine Mansfield Moment Letter Arms

I come now to another part of your letter, which is the orthography, if I may call bad spelling orthography. You spell induce, enduce; and grandeur, you spell grandure; two faults, of which few of my house-maids would have been guilty. I must tell you, that orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters, or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix a ridicule upon him for the rest of his life; and I know a man of quality, who never recovered the ridicule of having spelled wholesome without the w. By Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Orthography Part Call Bad Spelling

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel By Haruki Murakami Write Letter Superlong Oldfashioned

There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness. By Terry Tempest Williams Letter Sensual Paper Thoughts Envelope

Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time ... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings. By Alexandra Stoddard Letter Connected Solitude Writing Communicate

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer. By Piet Zwart Letter Typographer Uninteresting

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while. By Henry David Thoreau Fails Office Proportion Life Constantly

And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips. By Edmond Rostand Madam Lips Kisses Words Travel

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. By Karen Joy Fowler Letter Underestimate Power Wellwritten

One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex. By Nick Bantock Christmas Envelope Sex Key Pleasures

Some people write letters, in the library. By Margaret Atwood Letters Library People Write

How do you write a letter on the spur of the moment? And then post it? On the spur of the moment? By Edward Davies Moment Spur Write Letter Post

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined ... By Muriel Spark Categories Wit Style Wisdom Life

As much as I loved my computer, I wondered if I would ever know the joy of getting a letter from someone I loved, being able to pour over its contents time and time again, to feel the paper that he touched, and to know he took the time to share his day. By Lynn Cahoon Loved Time Computer Touched Day

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written! By Orhan Pamuk Letter Read Communicate Words Book

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll. By Tsunetomo Yamamoto Letter Scroll Writing Recipient Make

Letter 74I still have the first letter that you wrote to me. I carry it with me like a garden in my pocket.If you come to me at this momentyour minutes will become hoursyour hours will become daysand your days will become a lifetime.I am never sure if I am reading the letter or the letter is reading me. By Gregory Colbert Letter Wrote Reading Carry Garden