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• The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

  Don Henley

  Religious, Simple, Religion

  Song: Everything Is Different Now, Album: Inside Job, 2000

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• The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Wall, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

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• Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

  William Safire

  Home, Citizens, Letters

  William Safire (2008). “Safire's Political Dictionary”, p.313, Oxford University Press

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• Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.

  Gil Hodges

  Nice, People, World

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• Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Mean, Yesterday

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• Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

  Jesse Owens

  President

  "Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics". Book by Jeremy Schaap, 2007.

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• Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Next Day, Islands, Sea

  Thor Heyerdahl (1990). “Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O’NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.

  Libba Bray

  Mistake, Years, Miracle

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• Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Mother, Pregnancy

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• Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
  Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

  Phife Dawg

  Mother, Song, Attitude

  "Song: 'Check The Rhime'". 1991.

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• It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Inspirational, Hero, Names

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• I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

  Howard K. Smith

  Italian, America, Paradise

  Howard K. Smith (1951). “The State of Europe”

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• Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

  Albert Camus

  Mother, Home, Mean

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Want, Horror, Ask Me

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he said. Unexpectedly, Max swiveled around, yanked his pants down. The last thing I thought I had wanted to see tonight was Merc walking out the door. I was wrong. It was this stranger's rear end. "Please don't tell me this is one of those stripping telegrams?

  Justina Chen

  Doors, Lasts, Pants

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• It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait till you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Irritation, Brooklyn Bridge

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Father, Believe

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• How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Guy, Pages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

  Alison Gopnik

  Phones, Mail, Phone Calls

  Alison Gopnik (2016). “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children”, p.229, Macmillan

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• Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hurt, Stars, Pain

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1975). “Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy”, p.237, Indiana University Press

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• Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single day during our relationship, no matter where in the world I was, I'd get a telegram from Frank saying he loved me and missed me. He was a man who was deseperate for companionship and love. Can you wonder that he always had mine!

  Ava Gardner

  Men, Phones, And Love

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• After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Brain, Nintendo, Body

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• He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Twenties, Cost, Bucks

  Suzanne Brockmann (2004). “Hot Target”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

  Edward Albee

  Going Away, Unions, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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