41 quotes found
“If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.”
“I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circums...”
“I thought I had everything until I found you.”
“First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept the...”
“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
“Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.”
“No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind”
“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far...”
“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.”
“[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why dont you write to me? I dont know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is going against me and I am afraid I will have to p...”
“The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.”
“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...”
“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong way- something like that: from timidity, part...”
“The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.”
“Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.”
“Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.”
“Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious”
“Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.”
“They say no one reads anymore, but I find that's not the case. Prisoners read. I guess they're not given much access to computers. A felicitous injustice for me. The nicest reader letters I've rece...”
