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Quotes About Correspondence

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
~ Jacques Barzun
As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.
~ Paul Dirac
For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
~ John Steinbeck
The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
~ Virginia Woolf
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe...
~ Marguerite Duras
A letter makes ordinary things seem important.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Lenguaje auténtico me parece a mí aquel en el que la palabra y la cosa coinciden»
~ Anselm Grün
But there was no word of love in the note. An impassioned correspondence carried on through Didon would be delightful to her. She was quite capable of loving, and she did love the young man. She
~ Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XXXI THE RUFFORD CORRESPONDENCE
~ Anthony Trollope
My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
El hecho de que uno entable correspondencia con el ausente, con quien no puede hablar, no es menos natural que el de tratar de hacerse entender por escrito cuando uno ha perdido la voz.
~ Sigmund Freud
Do you respond to every e-mail you get, Becky?" Luke turns, incredulous. "Do you have a fine selection of Viagra substitutes too?
~ Sophie Kinsella
There's silence, then the phone bleeps again with his reply:
~ Sophie Kinsella
The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.
~ John Taliaferro
All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Dac?-mi place atîta corespondenÅ£a lui Dostoievski e pentru c? acolo nu e vorba decît de boal? ÅŸi de bani, unice subiecte <>. Tot restul nu e decît înflorituri ÅŸi talmeÅŸ-balmeÅŸ.
~ Emil Cioran
A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods
~ Emily
The inexorable box which keeps its mouth open to all comers receives its epistolary provender from all hands.
~ balzac honore de v
To write a letter, and to have it posted; to get an answer, to read it and burn it; there we have correspondence stated in the simplest terms.
~ balzac honore de xvi
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.
~ Joseph Epstein
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
~ Elizabeth McGovern
I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. I write a letter every now and then, you know, pick out somebody and drop them a line, because I always like receiving letters.
~ Peyton Manning