Quotes About Correspondence

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One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.

Call establishes relations

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

MILO: It comes to the same thing. ANDREW: Things mostly do, you know.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot of them are writing to me.

Folks in Alabama seem like folks in Georgia to me. I feel like you can just about combine the two.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

Gods don't answer letters.

Everything that I have known You'll write to me to remind Me of, and likewise I shall do The whole past I'll recount to you

Our Lord has a double view of us: the way He intended us to be and the way we corresponded to His grace.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

A thorough survey of Randolph's reading defeats such an effort. The Virginian had, certainly, a lively interest in the writers of his day, but his admiration for the Romantics was strictly qualified, as his correspondence with Francis Walker Gilmer, Brockenbrough, Francis Scott Key, and Josiah Quincy shows.

They say opposites attract, but like meets like, too.

I live in a constellation of intimates, and the shape of us is a family. We touch base and check in, with each other and also—I am so gratified to report—they sometimes check in with one another. Correspondences have sprung up and friendships have started to form beyond my influence. Family has begun to take on a transitive property as well.

God, but he was sick of missives. Letters were what people resorted to when they didn't want to lie to your face. When they wanted to pretend they weren't ripping your heart out.

All things are linked and knitted together, and the knot is sacred, neither is there anything in the world, that is not kind and natural in regard of any other thing, or, that hath not some kind of reference and natural correspondence with whatsoever is in the world besides.

If a metaphor says A is B and a simile says A is like B, then an analogy says A is to B as C is to D.