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Quotes About Correspondence

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].
~ Henri Poincare
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
~ William Congreve
But it was the great temple of Sringeri that always received his most generous patronage, as a stash of correspondence discovered within the temple in the 1950s bears witness. Tipu put on record his horror at the damage done to the temple by a Maratha Pindari raiding party during a Maratha invasion of Mysore: 'People who have sinned against such a holy place are sure to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds,' wrote Tipu. 'Those
~ William Dalrymple
Being friends as in writing letters was so much easier than being friends as in living together.
~ William Finnegan
K' is for communications.
~ David J. Gannon
lettres recommandées (registered letters)
~ David Lebovitz
Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.
~ John Battelle
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
~ William Butler Yeats
I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.
~ Colin Dexter
real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
~ Agnes Repplier
I get mail; therefore I am.
~ Scott Adams
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
~ George Chapman
Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.
~ Alice Walker
Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.
~ Janna Levin
Questions you can wait hours to learn the answers to are fine to put in an email. Questions that require answers in the next few minutes can go into an instant message. For crises that truly merit a sky-is-falling designation, you can use that old-fashioned invention called the telephone. With
~ Jason Fried
After Margaret moved to Florida they continued to stay in touch in a Christmas card/life-milestone way.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The untimely death of John compelled him to accept an advantageous treaty; but he still continued, the subject and the soldier of Valentinian, to entertain a secret, perhaps a treasonable, correspondence with his Barbarian allies, whose retreat had been purchased by liberal gifts, and more liberal promises.
~ Edward Gibbon
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
~ Albert Einstein
El amor que teme no ser correspondido infunde esta clase de timidez a los hombres más enérgicos
~ Alberto Blest Gana
Me confesarás que un amor correspondido tiene mil veces más fuerzas para aferrares al corazón que el que vive de suspiros y sin esperanza -Rafael san Luis
~ Alberto Blest Gana
The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
~ Malcolm X