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• A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

  Nicholas Sparks

  New York, Typical, Agents

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• A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

  Samuel McChord Crothers

  Writing, Tired, Poetry

  Samuel McChord Crothers (1920). “The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers”

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• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  Richard Jewell

  Men, Innocent Man, Names

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• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

  Ed Markey

  Important, Four, Anticipation

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• Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

  Bob Garfield

  Flu, Chains

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• I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

  Sigmund Freud

  Writing, Something New, Knows

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.235, Courier Corporation

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• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

  George Eliot

  Life, Writing, Weaving

  Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8 June 1856

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• It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Water, Doe

  Henry Miller (1952). “The books in my life”, p.216, Рипол Классик

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• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I get a lot of letters from people.

  George Osborne

  People

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• A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rude, Receiving, Agents

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Important, Letter Writing, Parentheses

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Writing, Advice, Doubt

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• In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Men, Mirrors

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.519

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• In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

  William Shenstone

  Atmosphere, Spirit, Lows

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men, manners, and things. A description of The Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.212

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• Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Running, Writing, Shopping

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• Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Jeans, Design, Dinner

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• Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

  Alvin Toffler

  Writing, Errors, Editors

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• After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

  Jean Cocteau

  Death, Reading, Long

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Harcourt

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• All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

  William Gurnall

  Hands, Drawing, Plot

  William Gurnall (1994). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.117, Moody Publishers

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• There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Selfish, Mean

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

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• Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

  Dick Cavett

  Dirty, Naughty, Mind

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• I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Simple

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• I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

  Samuel Alito

  Feet, Spirit, Ethics

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• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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