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  • Letters Quote #1

    (...) às vezes não se tem o que escrever mesmo quando se tem o que falar.

    Clarice Lispector

  • Letters Quote #2

    (honest, darling, you're the only dental assistant in my life)(in fact, you're the only girl in my life)(in fact, you're my life).

    Emma Sweeney

  • Letters Quote #3

    (Quoting Goethe:)

    We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

    James Howe

  • Letters Quote #4

    (S)uccessful people, no matter how busy, seem to make time to write letters.

    Mark Demoss

  • Letters Quote #5

    {Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll, 1894}

    I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men would take you more for a guide than they do, or seem to do. You have, of course, an immense constituency; but your love of letters and your deeply poetic spirit render you worthy of a far greater reverence and respect from writers than it seems to me that you receive. I want the brilliancy of your thought to penetrate our literature profoundly and permanently. But of course that will come. The younger generation of writers cannot escape you any more than the air they breath. You will, indeed, be the air they breath, -- and hence, in many cases, if not all, their inspiration. Especially should the poets love you and sit at your feet. If you die before you see the change, I believe that those who now love you and survive you will see how much of the mere pietistic rubbish in modern poetry has been gradually yet surely swept away by the mighty besom of your fearless and noble intellect.

    Edgar Fawcett

  • Letters Quote #6

    »Die Gewohnheit hat mich das Landleben so sehr liebgewinnen lassen, dass ich sofort vor Traurigkeit sterben würde, könnte ich keine blühenden Bäume mehr von Nahem sehen; das ist wohl keine gute Ausgangslage, um die schwarzen Dämpfe in den Straßen dieser großen Stadt einzuatmen, (…).

    [Rousseau an Comtesse de Boufflers, Môtiers-Travers, 20. August 1762]

    JeanJacques Rousseau

  • Letters Quote #7

    A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

    Emily Dickinson

  • Letters Quote #8

    A love letter lost in the mail, forgotten, miss delivered and then discovered years later and received by the intended is romantic. A love letter ending up in someone's spam filter is just annoying.

    B.J. Neblett

  • Letters Quote #9

    A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

    Nirav Sanchaniya

  • Letters Quote #10

    Af en toe levensgrote paranoia creëren verleent aan een tocht een bepaalde, aantrekkelijke dimensie, die mij soms aanzet de gekste situaties te bedenken.

    Jef Geeraerts

  • Letters Quote #11

    Algebra is numbers forgetting why they’re letters.

    Jarod Kintz

  • Letters Quote #12

    All letters of love are
    Ridiculous.
    They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not
    Ridiculous.

    Fernando Pessoa

  • Letters Quote #13

    All the letters from A to Z couldn’t express what you mean to me. Not without cloning them and using some over and over

    Jarod Kintz

  • Letters Quote #14

    Almost every day, for years now, he has taken pen in hand to write to her. He has no names or addresses to put on the envelopes: but he has a life to recount. And to whom, if not to her? He thinks that when they meet it will be wonderful to place the mahogany box full of letters on her lap and say to her, “I was waiting for you.”
    She will open the box and slowly, when she so desires, read the letters one by one, and as she works her way back up the interminable thread of blue ink she will gather up the years — the days, the moments – that that man, before he even met her, had already given to her. Or perhaps, more simply, she will overturn the box and, astonished at that comical snowstorm of letters, she will smile, saying to that man, “You are mad.” And she will love him forever.

    Alessandro Baricco

  • Letters Quote #15

    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.

    Alexandra Stoddard

  • Letters Quote #16

    An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form.

    H.P. Lovecraft

  • Letters Quote #17

    And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the relative permanence of paint, words were temporal. You uttered them and they evanesced, but if you wrote them, they remained, though whether the written word was any more truthful than the spoken was a mystery to her. Only paint was honest.

    Robin Oliveira

  • Letters Quote #18

    Andy: But they gave us an out in the Land of Oz. They made us write. They didn't make us write particularly well. And they didn't always give us important things to write about. But they did make us sit down, and organize our thoughts, and convey those thoughts on paper as clearly as we could to another person. Thank God for that. That saved us. Or at least it saved me. So I have to keep writing letters. If I can't write them to you, I have to write them to someone else. I don't think I could ever stop writing completely.

    A.R. Gurney

  • Letters Quote #19

    Anything that is worth being written on pretty paper is worth being written on ugly paper.

    Elevetha Houre

  • Letters Quote #20

    Apesar de eu não saber ler, distinguia bem entre as letras hebraicas, impressas no lado esquerdo do devocionário, e as alemãs, no lado direito. As hebraicas agradavam-me mais: vistosas, arredondadas, levavam, por cima e por baixo, pontinhos e tracinhos, dançavam, por assim dizer, livremente no espaço, enquanto as alemãs, impressas a duas colunas, eram magrinhas, hirtas, bem comportadas. O lado das letras hebraicas fazia pensar uma cabeça endiabrada, cheia de caracóis; o outro, das letras alemãs, na cabeça bem penteada duma senhora idosa, com monótona risca ao meio.

    Ilse Losa

  • Letters Quote #21

    Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

    Diane Samuels

  • Letters Quote #22

    As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

    Sara Sheridan

  • Letters Quote #23

    As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they? I felt when I got to the end that I'd lived for years in that set. But oh dearie me I am glad that I'm not in it!

    Lytton Strachey

  • Letters Quote #24

    atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Letters Quote #25

    Be consistent in your attitude towards her and do not add anything to the impression she has that you are weak, not because you need her good-will but because you can expect more letters like this, and they can only serve to increase your already dangerous anti-social instincts.

    Truman Capote

  • Letters Quote #26

    Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

    Seneca

  • Letters Quote #27

    Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

    Bob Dylan

  • Letters Quote #28

    But as to your writing me that I don’t love you very much, I don’t know whether you’re saying this in earnest or whether I should realise that you’re joking with me. Still, what you say disturbs me. You are measuring a very healthy expression of a wife’s loyalty by the standard of the insincere flattery of well-worn phrases. But I shall love you, my husband. What does it mean to you that you reassure me with those trivial little compliments? Do you want me to believe that you expect me to comb my hair in a stylish fashion for your homecoming? Or to feign adoring looks with a painted face? Let women without means, who worry and have no confidence in their virtue, flutter their eyelashes and play games to gain favour with their husbands. This is the adulation of a fox and the birdlime of deceitful bird hunting. I don’t want to have to buy you at such a price. I’m not a person who lays more stock in words than duty. I am truly your Laura, whose soul is the same one you in turn had hoped for.

    Laura Cereta

  • Letters Quote #29

    But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.

    Edward Abbey

  • Letters Quote #30

    But swan, float lightly because you are a swan, because by the exquisite curve of your neck the gods gave you some special favor, and even though you fracture it running against some man-made bridge, it healed and you sailed onward.-- F. Scott Fitzgerald to his wife Zelda.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

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