Quotes About Correspondence

Never answer an anonymous letter

Amar, porque nada melhor para a saúde que um amor correspondido.

And do come as soon as you possibly can! P.S. to Gauguin. If you are not ill, do please come at once. If you are too ill, a wire and a letter, please. P.S. to Theo. Perhaps you will think the P.S. to Gauguin too curt, but let him say whether or not he is ill, and anyhow he will recover better here. Have you received my canvases???

I am not writing to Gauguin direct, but will send the letter to you, because in any case we had better sit tight. If we say nothing more, if the reply shows that we have made such and such a proposal but that there must be some initiative on his side too, then we can see if he is keen on it. If he is not keen on it, if it's all the same to him, if he has something else in mind, let him remain independent and me too.

To my letter of the day before yesterday I want to add that yesterday I had a letter from Rappard, and that our quarrel is completely made up, that he has sent me a sketch of a large picture of a brickyard which he is painting.

Paul Gauguin's remark about his friend Van Gogh is not without interest: "Il oubliait même," wrote the famous painter of négresses, "d'écrire le hollandais, et comme on a pu voir par la publication de ses lettres à son frère, il n'écrivait jamais qu'en français, et cela admirablement, avec des 'Tant qu'à, Quant à,' à n'en plus finir."[1]

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.

We write to-communicat"!

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

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

Anonymous inanely stupid letter,' he said. 'Who has ever sent me an anonymous letter? Who capable of rational thought sends anyone an anonymous letter?

was in correspondence with their religious

lo semejante se une siempre a su semejante.

o semelhante sempre do semelhante se aproxima.

We're to write our letters to Father Christmas." "To be burned up in the chimney?" Gem asked. "One of my favorite British traditions.

Well, I've been corresponding with a complete stranger in a notebook, telling him my innermost feelings and thoughts and then blindly going to mystery places where he dares me to go….

You've got mail…

Like associates with like.

You always feel more attracted to people who play the way you play.

I don't email.

Email is a fundamental application.

I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.