Quotes About Correspondence

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well. When they mailed the letter, they wrote a name, a street, a city, and a country and they melted wax and sealed the envelope with a signet ring.

Moment to moment, we act freely, we make decisions and form opinions and there is very little to throttle us. We think each of us has a map marked with private routings and preferred habitual destinations, and go by a legend of our own. Yet it turns out you can overlay them and see a most amazing correspondence; what you believed were very personal contours aligning not exactly but enough that while our via points may diverge, our endings do not.

Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.

I wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

I didn't know what to do with the fan mail. I had a little mini, and I used to put it at the back of my mini, and it grew and grew.

It was, however, striking—in the best sense of the word—that precisely those rules that corresponded exactly to their overseers' economic interests enjoyed unconditional veneration, whereas rules for which said correspondence was less applicable were more likely to be winked at.

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

Nessuno pensa alla penna mentre legge una lettera [...] vuole solo conoscere l'intenzione della persona che l'ha scritta.

Indeed, truth itself may be defined as that which corresponds to reality as perceived by God.

Johnson's reply was cordial and short. "When convenient, I'd be happy to meet." So I went back to his assistant with the information that Michael said he'd be happy to meet and that I was now calling to find out when. And finally, we did in fact meet.

As Within, So Without.

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

Wiedzia?e? i nie powiedzia?e? mi? - Czy uwierzy?aby? mi, gdybym przyszed? do Ciebie, nie przynosz?c dowodów? Musia?em je mie?, skoro Ty, Pani, raz za razem rozstrzyga?a? w?tpliwo?ci na jego korzy??. By? nies?ychanie ostro?ny; samo przej?cie jego korespondencji wymaga?o cudów zr?czno?ci.

written summary of the call was sent to the client. Sean's

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Michel was first imprisoned at Creusot, then taken to Drancy. On 6 November 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz and sent immediately to the gas chamber. There is then a two-year gap in the correspondence.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magic grasp upon the future.

In Russia, receiving a letter was such a rare phenomenon that any member of the family who got his hands on it first opened it.

nos parecemos.

He had shown me letters he had received not only from Kafka but from Jakob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig, Romain Rolland, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Martin Buber.