Letters Quotes - Page 18

• A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

  Francis Bacon

  Grace, Figures, Recommendations

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• Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Mean, Night

  Graham Greene (2010). “A Burnt Out Case”, p.6, Random House

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• He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

  John McPhee

  Action, Inventing

  John McPhee (2011). “The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed”, p.42, Macmillan

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• There's a lot of letters in Ladanian Tomlinson

  John Madden

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• 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.

  Seth

  Phones, Trying, Gains

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• Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

  Richard Price

  Years, Mind, Alphabet

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• My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.

  Alex Campbell

  Writing, Men, Views

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• I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

  Ryan White

  School, Support, World

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• I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

  Sting

  Party, Believe, Commitment

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

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• Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.

  Paul Murray

  Numbers, People, Broken

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• Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

  David Lodge

  Academic Life, Law, Peers

  1984 Small World, pt.3, ch.1.

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• To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'

  Barbara Bush

  Writing, Discipline, Shapes

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• I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

  Henry Miller

  Hate, Writing, Down And

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• I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.

  Harold Evans

  Jobs, Thinking, Editors

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

  Joe Walsh

  Writing, Waiting, Fans

  Song: Life's Been Good

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• Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

  William Congreve

  Hair, Poetry, Praying

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• There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

  Christopher Morley

  People, Certain, Feels

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• A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Style, Magazines

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.133, New York Review of Books

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• My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mother, Baby, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

  Dan Savage

  Writing, People, Needs

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy who's written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations and they make us sound as if we know what we're doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we're all just struggling in the dark, really.

  Nicholson Baker

  Distance, Struggle, Book

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Artist, Should Have, People

  "'Bloom County' And Opus The Penguin Return After A 25-Year Hiatus". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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• Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.

  Jean Houston

  Jobs, Opportunity, Years

  "Jean Houston PhD Awakening Human Potential". Interview with David Welch, www.awaken.com. April 3, 2015.

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• It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Prayer, Men, Leader

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• All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Sick, Too Much

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