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Quotes About Correspondence

The letter arrives on a Friday. I would like that, very much.
~ Celeste Ng
Once a week she would have to strain her nerves in going over about one dozen letters and a few dozen papers, mostly Fireside Companions from Portland, Maine. The mail sack would be dumped out on the floor and sorted over there.
~ Charles A. Siringo
Perfumes, colors and sounds echo one another.
~ Charles Baudelaire
A letter to the Beloved, is like Ink kissing Paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est L'encre embrassant le papier)
~ Charles de Leusse
She'll wish there was more, and that's the great art o' letter-writin'.
~ Charles Dickens
He'd write letters by the ream, if it was a capital offence!
~ Charles Dickens
My dear Copperfield," he replied. "To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence," said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, "the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!
~ Charles Dickens
I thank you for such a long letter, and yet if I might choose, the next should be a longer. I think a letter just about three days long would make me happier than any other kind of one, if you please...
~ Emily Dickinson, 1851
It is foolish to say sharp, hasty things, but 't is a deal more foolish to write 'em. 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.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The post-office has a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
I love to get letters But the sweetest, by heck, Are the ones that begin with: "Inclosed please find check."
~ Milwaukee Sentinel, 1906
That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.
~ Graham Joyce
By the time he had to head to San Francisco, for his night shift at the UCSF Medical Center emergency room, Mortenson had completed, sealed, and stamped six letters. One for Oprah Winfrey. One for each network news anchor, including CNN's Bernard Shaw, since he figured CNN was becoming as big as the other guys. And a letter he'd written spontaneously to the actress Susan Sarandon, since she seemed so nice, and so dedicated to causes
~ Greg Mortenson
I'd like to talk to him, too. Name is Sid
~ James Patterson
I find some unity with Ron Paul.
~ Bill Ayers
Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.
~ Ian Shoales
Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.
~ Jane Austen
I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.
~ Kitty Kelley
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
~ Russell Baker
The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
~ Thomas Szasz
We cannot really think in one way and act in another...
~ Thomas Troward
never knew who to send a letter to with the Thornton Wilder stamp.
~ Thornton Wilder
there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life.
~ Three Initiates
1. The Principle of Mentalism. 2. The Principle of Correspondence. 3. The Principle of Vibration. 4. The Principle of Polarity. 5. The Principle of Rhythm. 6. The Principle of Cause and Effect. 7. The Principle of Gender.
~ Three Initiates