"And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever."
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"She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced."
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"Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end."
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"I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones."
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"I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters."
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"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
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"A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly."
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"There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!"
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"Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?"
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"As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight."
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"I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters."
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"At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before."
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"When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with."
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"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."
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"It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother."
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"The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous."
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"Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'"
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"Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come."
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"Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them out."
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"You are a fool in four letters, my son."
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