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"Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most."
"Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter."
"... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more."
"I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one."
"There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard."
"I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood."
"Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live."
"I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."
"But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."
"God! How men of letters are stupid."
"What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters."
"Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write."
"Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?"
"And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't."
"My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum."
"Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters."
"Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say."
"Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall."
"Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together."
"Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z."
