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"They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt."
"The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five."
"If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back."
"Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life."
"If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection."
"Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please."
"It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together."
"Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process."
"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize."
"Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity."
"Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it."
"Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight."
"He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot."
"Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D."
"They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley."
"After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage."
"Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters."
"According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit."
"While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in [if he won]."
"I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest."
